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Mineral Nutrition

Question
CBSEENBI11002781

The first stable product of fixation of atmospheric nitrogen in the leguminous plant is 

  • NO2-

  • ammonia

  • NO3-

  • glutamate

Solution

B.

ammonia

N2Nitrogen  N2H2 Dimide N2H4Hydrazine  2NH3Ammonia

The fixation of atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia is given as

N2 + 8e- + 8H+ + 16ATP NitrogenaseMO -Fe                            2NH3 + H2 + 16 ADP + 16Pi

The process in which atmospheric nitrogen rates concerted into inorganic nitrogenous (nitrate, ammonia) compounds through microorganisms is called biological nitrogen fixing.