Azolla for Aquatic Nitrogen   

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Azolla, a common little aquatic floating fern, is the host of a symbiotic blue-green algae, now more often called a cyanobacteria, which has the power to fix atmospheric nitrogen into a plant-available form. Azolla is often cultivated in wetland rice paddies so that chemical fertilizers are not needed. See the link below.

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The "Rice-Azolla-Fish" system-rice grown under the ridge culture in China, showing inter-rows being prepared for Azolla inoculation.

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