Beans are a key food at the dietary level, boasting high nutritional value and constituting the most directly consumed legume ...

Field trials on nitrogen-fixing microbes in corn have yet to show reliable benefits, but work continues on their potential of reducing corn's high demand for the nutrient.

A recent study from the University of Illinois shows that gene-edited bacteria can supply the equivalent of 35 pounds of nitrogen from the air during early corn growth, which may ...

The introduction of N-Finity is an extension of Nutrien’s “purpose-built approach” to biologicals, and it brings three ways to improve nitrogen management in a single product and application.

An oxygen sensor protein protects the enzymatic machinery of biological nitrogen fixation from serious damage, and its use in biotechnology could help to reduce the use of synthetic fertilizer in ...

Protein protects biological nitrogen fixation from oxidative stress. ScienceDaily . Retrieved January 29, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 / 250115165045.htm ...

A NEW header-harvestable crop-pasture legume suited to mildly acidic-alkaline soils in low-medium rainfall areas has been ...

A UCO team has applied the genome editing technique, which garnered a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020, to unravel the ...

Citation: Protein that protects biological nitrogen fixation from oxidative stress could reduce reliance on synthetic fertilizers (2025, January 15) retrieved 1 February 2025 from https://phys.org ...

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