Is it possible to grow cereal crops without having to rely on energy-using commercial fertilizers? In a new study publishing Aug. 7 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology researchers describe a newly identified corn variety that acquires nitrogen by feeding its sugars to beneficial bacteria, which can in turn take up nitrogen from the air […] Read more
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Corn that finds its own nitrogen
Science Notes: Researchers have known about it since the 1980s but were only recently able to analyze it
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