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Nitrogen Fixers - Through recombinant DNA technology efforts have been made to introduce nitrogen-fixing genes (nif genes) into wheat, corn, rice, etc. Plasmids of the bacterium, E. coli and yeast are being worked out for such a possibility. Hybrid E. coli plasmid cloned with nif genes of a nitrogen-fixing bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae and hybrid yeast plasmids are then integrated.