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comment Are there any plants that fix their own nitrogen?
I would be more comfortable with giving phytoplankton the ability to fix nitrogen: they might not be able to transfer their new N fixing organelles to land plants as easily, while they would increase the global fish supply- probably more than giving traditional plants N2 fixing capabilities would increase food production. Even then there would be the possibility of creating "dead" zones.
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comment Are there any plants that fix their own nitrogen?
Allowing plats to fix their own N2 sounds like the most dangerous form of genetic engineering possible. There are already so many noxious weeds - once a "food" can fix its own nitrogen, it will quickly become an uncontrollable weed. Innovation is not always good.
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comment How Do Galls Form?
One type of gall: cedar-apple rust en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnosporangium_juniperi-virginianae
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comment Where is the line between Anaerobic and Aerobic?
"Most microbes respire (use an electron transport chain), although oxygen is not the only terminal electron acceptor that may be used. " - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial_metabolism , see also; nitrificationnetwork.org/Introduction.php (Ctrl+F, electron transport chain)
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comment Where is the line between Anaerobic and Aerobic?
I thought that NADH and FADH2 could be recycled using Nitrites - I edited in a diagram.
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comment How Do Galls Form?
gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/2052/…
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