Brussels, 02/08/2001 (Agence Europe) - A research project, supported by the European Commission to the amount of 2.442 million euros, has enabled European, Canadian and American scientists to carry out full genetic sequencing of a nitrogen fixative bacteria, Sinorhizobium meliloti (S.meliloti). This result, which has just been published in the review "Science" is important for the understanding of the fixation of nitrogen by plants but which may also be useful elsewhere to the extent that...