I came across this question in my book, it says:

The fertility of the soil increases when there is a lot of ....... in it.

The coices to fill the space were:

Nitrogen - nodular bacteria - fungi

I would exclude fungi as in my course I don't have anything says that fungi affect the fertility of the soil. Both nitrogen and nodular bacteria are good choices and I am confused between them. Nitrogen is an important nutrient, nodular bacteria are the nitrogent-fixing bacteria, so both are important to the firtility of the soil, but I chose nitrogen, as I thought it is more correct, but I found that the answer was "nodular bacteria" so why is this? Is there anything I don't understand?

I came across this question in my book, it says:

The fertility of the soil increases when there is a lot of ....... in it.

The choices to fill the space were:

Nitrogen - nodular bacteria - fungi

I would exclude fungi as in my course I don't have anything says that fungi affect the fertility of the soil. Both nitrogen and nodular bacteria are good choices and I am confused between them. Nitrogen is an important nutrient, nodular bacteria are the nitrogent-fixing bacteria, so both are important to the firtility of the soil, but I chose nitrogen, as I thought it is more correct, but I found that the answer was "nodular bacteria" so why is this? Is there anything I don't understand?