Possible Interaction: Molybdenum and Nitrogen

“The effects of Mo and P amendments on BNF were infrequent and inconsistent across roadside distances and across sites.”

“Molybdenum Mo ), an essential microelement for plants, animals, and microorganisms, is reported can reduce soil nitrogen (N) residues and regulate plant root growth, but little is known about its effect on soil N transformation in plant-root region.”

“IMPORTANCE Molybdenum nitrogenase (Nif), which catalyzes the reduction of dinitrogen to ammonium, has modulated the availability of fixed nitrogen in the biosphere since early in Earth's history.”

“It was observed that the presence of molybdenum in the culture media of all the bacterial samples increased the fixation of nitrogen indicating that molybdenum is essential for increasing the efficiency of the nitrogen fixers for nitrogen fixation.”

“ Molybdenum , however, is required for the fixation of nitrogen.”

“Soluble nitrogen’ and protein nitrogen fractions also may be less when molybdenum is withheld, but may be nearly normal in the absence of molybdenum when ammonium sulphate is used instead of nitrate as a source of nitrogen2.”