The Nitrogen Fixation and its Research in China

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVIII

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2. Chemistry of Nitrogen Fixation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Research on the Chemical Modelling of Biological Nitrogen Fixation in the New China—An Overview of Research Carried out at the Fujian Institute During the 1970s and the Early 1980s

      • Jiaxi Lu

      Pages 3-29

   3. A Chemical Bond Theory of Transition-Metal-Dinitrogen Complexes

      • Ao-Qing Tang, Ji-Qing Xu

      Pages 31-62

   4. Study on the Chemistry of Molybdenum—Iron—Sulfur and Iron—Sulfur Clusters

      • Ji-Qing Xu, Zhi-Gui Zhang, Shu-Yun Niu, Ao-Qing Tang

      Pages 63-86

   5. Studies on the Mechanism of Nitrogenase Catalysis— Substrates-Cluster-Coordination-Chemistry Approach

      • K. R. Tsai, H.-L. Wan, H.-T. Zhang, L.-S. Xu

      Pages 87-117

   6. ATP Binding to Nitrogenase and ATP-Driven Electron Transfer in Nitrogen Fixation

      • Chong-Biao You, Wei Song, Ding Zeng, K. R. Tsai

      Pages 119-150

   7. Chemical Modelling of the Active Site of Molybdenum—Iron Protein. Synergism of MoFe3S4 Cubane-Like Unit from Physical and Chemical Evidence

      • Bei-Sheng Kang, Qiu-Tian Liu, Jia-Xi Lu

      Pages 151-174

   8. Synthesis, Structure and Properties of some Mo—Fe—S, Mo—S Model Compounds for the Mo—Fe Center and the First Coordination Sphere of the Mo—Atom in Nitrogenase

      • Bo-Tao Zhuang, Liang-Ren Huang, Xiao-Ten Zhao, Pen-Cheng Chen, An-Jian Lan, Jia-Xi Lu

      Pages 175-191

   9. Systematic Investigations on the Bonding Property of the M—Fe—S (M = Mo, V, and W) Cluster Compounds and Novel Assumption on the Active Center Models of Nitrogenase

      • Chun-Wan Liu, Jia-Xi Lu

      Pages 193-222

3. Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics of Nitrogen Fixation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223

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   2. Identification and DNA Sequence Analysis of the fixX Gene of R. leguminosarum bv. Viciae

      • G. F. Hong, F. D. Ni, Q. S. Ma, J. A. Downie

      Pages 225-228

   3. Multiple Binding Sites in the Complex Between the nodA-D Intergenic Region the Product of the nodD Gene

      • G. F. Hong, H. M. Cao, F. D. Ni, Y. Y. Lu

      Pages 229-233

   4. Nitrogenase and FeMo-Cofactor

      • Yong-Qi Lin, Fei Wang

      Pages 235-250

   5. Chemical Modification of the Active Center of Nitrogenase

      • X. P. Dai, J. S. Yang, C. G. Zhang

      Pages 251-264

   6. Genetic Improvement of Rhizobium Strains

      • Larissa A. Sharypova, Inge-M. Pretorius-Güth, Boris V. Simarov, Alfred Pühler

      Pages 265-285

   7. The Importance of the Rhizobial Cell Surface in Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation

      • Andrew W. B. Johnston

      Pages 287-301

   8. Rhizobium Meliloti Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation: Identification of NIF and FIX Genes; The NIF FIX Cascade Regulatory Pathway

      • Pierre Boistard

      Pages 303-314

   9. The Nodulation of Legumes by Rhizobia

      • A. Economou, J. A. Downie

      Pages 315-341

   10. Nitrogen-Fixing Enterobacter: Structure of nif-Gene Group, nif-Plasmid Spread and Risk Assessment for Releases

       • Walter Klingmüller

       Pages 343-363

Nitrogen Fixation by symbiotic organisms is considered an important contribution to the solution of food problems throughout the world. For manyyears, Chinese scientists have focused their research in this area. Today more than half of the total nitrogen fertilizers applied are from biological fixation sources. The editor is an international renowned scientist at the Chinese Academy of sciences. He has brought together contributions from various research fields in China and Europe.Together they present the state-of-the-art in nitrogen-fixation research. The studies range from actino- mycete fixation induced in various genera andspecies of plants, mechanisms and chemical modeling of enzyme systems togenetical engineering of organisms.

• Agricultural Chemistry
• Applied Biochemistry
• Bakterien
• Biological Fertilizers
• Düngemittel
• Nitrogen Fixation
• Stickstoff
• Stickstoff-Fixierung
• Stickstoffbindende Bakterien
• bacteria
• biochemistry
• chemistry
• enzyme
• enzymes

• Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Academia Sinica, Shanghai, PR China

  Guo-Fan Hong

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