Medicago intertexta
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Medicago intertexta is a flowering plant of the family Fabaceae. It is found primarily in the western Mediterranean basin. It forms a symbiotic
relationship with the bacterium Sinorhizobium medicae, which is capable of nitrogen fixation
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A form with red-blotched leaves was formerly much grown as a garden plant.
Symbiosis
Symbiosis is close and often long-term interaction between different biological species. In 1877 Bennett used the word symbiosis to describe the mutualistic relationship in lichens...
relationship with the bacterium Sinorhizobium medicae, which is capable of nitrogen fixation
Nitrogen fixation
Nitrogen fixation is the natural process, either biological or abiotic, by which nitrogen in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia . This process is essential for life because fixed nitrogen is required to biosynthesize the basic building blocks of life, e.g., nucleotides for DNA and RNA and...
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A form with red-blotched leaves was formerly much grown as a garden plant.