Legume vs Rhizobium - What's the difference?
legume | rhizobium |
The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
Any of a large family (Leguminosae syn. Fabaceae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers).
A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.
(biology) Any of various bacteria, of the genus Rhizobium , that form nodules on the roots of legumes and fix nitrogen
