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Legumes fertilise the soil but cereals do not. Discuss.

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a. Leguminnous plants posses root nodules where nitrogen is fixed by symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteria like Rhizobium.
b. Whereas cereal do not posses nitrogen fixing bacteria in their root nodules, so they cannot fertilise the soil.
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