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What living things in the soil are needed to change nitrogen into a form plants can use?

April 26, 2017form Living needed nitrogen plants soil

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What living things in the soil are needed to change nitrogen into a form plants can use?

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Only certain bacteria and archaea have the ability to “fix nitrogen”, converting it into form used by plants. Although the first stable product of the process is ammonia, this is quickly incorporated into protein and other organic nitrogen compounds.