Nitrogen fixation: global perspectives. Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation, Hamilton, Ontario,

The proceedings include the Johanna Döbereiner memorial lecture, a note on the discovery in 1965 of inorganic nitrogen complexes, the keynote address, and 68 papers in 15 sections (each mostly introduced by an overview): Chemistry and biochemistry of nitrogenase; Bacterial genomics; Plant genomics; Signal transduction; Developmental biology; Signals in the soil; Proteins in regulation and development; Stresses and factors limiting nitrogen fixation; Regulation of N2 fixation and metabolism; Nodule metabolism; Endophytic/associative plant-microbe interactions; Common themes in symbiosis and pathogenesis; Nitrification, denitrification and the nitrogen cycle; Novel applications in nitrogen fixation; and Applied aspects of nitrogen fixation. Abstracts of poster presentations, and author and subject indexes are also included.