Talk:Hermann Hellriegel

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Nitrogen fixation[edit]

Discuss at Talk:Martinus Beijerinck#Nitrogen fixation. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 15:26, 22 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Issue resolved as Beijerinck identified azotobacter chroococcum as active species doing the fixation that Hellriegel produced with infusion. — Rgdboer (talk) 02:50, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]


It seems there is some confusion in the specifics of what was discovered by whom. This seems to indicate that the original discovery about legumes fixing nitrogen was by Jean-Baptiste Boussingault but that Hellriegel and Wilfarth later discovered what the process was. Not sure the best way to correct this article. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3682740/table/RSTB20130120TB1/?report=objectonly Catskul (talk) 14:47, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]