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.

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

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

Modern agriculture’s critical challenge is to feed a growing global population while reducing the environmental footprint of ...

IT is a well-known fact that by the combined action of cellulose-decomposing and nitrogen-fixing bacteria in crude culture, elementary nitrogen may be fixed in quantities of as much as 10–12 mgm.

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

If corn ever felt envious of soybeans’ relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, advancements in gene editing might one day level the playing field. Researchers at the University of Illinois ...

Nutrien’s new N-FINITY technology gives growers flexibility when making on-farm nitrogen management decisions.

The domestication of crop legumes has forced them to adopt rhizobial partners in new environments. The molecular framework developed by the symbiotic nitrogen fixation community has allowed ...

Atmospheric nitrogen must first be converted, or “fixed,” into a form that can be used by plants, often as ammonia. There are only two ways of fixing nitrogen, one industrial and one biological. To ...