Question

Harshita saw that this year his uncle has sown legumes in his fields on asking his uncle he told her that by doing this lack of a particular nutrient in the soil is replenished do you know the name of that nutrient​

Answer 1

nitrogen is replenished in the soil

Answer 2

Legumes provide nitrogen to the soil.

• Leguminous crops are the crops of the legume family, characterized by the presence of nodules in roots. These nodules have nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
• Examples of leguminous crops are beans, peas etc.
• The bacteria that fixes nitrogen is Rhizobium. These bacteria fix nitrogen as they convert atmospheric nitrogen gas to ammonia.
• These are gram-negative bacteria that contain enzyme nitrogenase.