Scientists discovered a small protein region that determines whether plants reject or welcome nitrogen-fixing bacteria. By tweaking only two amino acids, they converted a defensive receptor into one ...

Overestimated nitrogen availability has led climate models to exaggerate how much plant growth can offset rising CO2 levels. Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are a major driver of ...

Nitrogen is vital for all known life. Yet most nitrogen on Earth is in the atmosphere as di-nitrogen gas, which many organisms can’t use. Fortunately, there are microbes that can tap into this ...

To reconstruct the C. orbicularis symbiont's metabolism, we sequenced the genome of purified bacteria to provide a basis for subsequent global proteomic analyses. As expected, the symbiont's genome ...

Scientists at the University of California Davis recently developed wheat plants that stimulate the production of their own ...

By coaxing soil bacteria into fixing more nitrogen, gene-edited wheat shows how crops might one day sidestep synthetic fertilizers.

If this trait can be transferred successfully, these crops could become self-sufficient in nitrogen. This would reduce the ...

Here’s the thing about nitrogen. It’s essential for life—a key ingredient in both DNA and proteins. It also makes up seventy-eight per cent of the air we breathe. It would be useful for us if we could ...

Most organisms require nitrogen to produce biological molecules, such as nucleotides and amino acids, but until recently, only prokaryotes were known to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. “It’s a very ...

Scientists shed light on an unexpected partnership: A marine diatom and a bacterium that can account for a large share of nitrogen fixation in vast regions of the ocean. This symbiosis likely plays a ...

Soybean is the second most widely produced crop in DE, ranking just behind corn for grain. In 2022, approximately 160,000 acres of soybeans were produced in Delaware with an average yield of 43 bu/ac.