Q198
Beijerinck (1888) discovered
A.
Nitrogen fixation
B.
Bacillus radicicola
C.
Nodule formation in legumes
D.
Both B and C
AnswerAnswer: Option D
Solution
Answer: Option D
Solution:
Beijerinck (1888) discovered Bacillus radicicola and Nodule formation in legumes.Prof. M. W. Beijerinck is most famous as a soil microbiologist. It was Beijerinck who, in 1888, isolated Bacillus radicicola, the nodule organism of leguminous plants. His studies, important to soil science, on the sulphur bacteria, azatobacter, and on denitrification came at about the same time as his work on the tobacco-mosaic virus.