Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Bacteria are wildly underrated. From farming to flavoring, these ...

University of Delaware undergraduate student Spencer Toth was always interested in the environment and biology, so when she arrived at UD and realized that she could combine both of her passions by ...

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Researchers at the University of East Anglia have discovered how nitrogen-fixing bacteria sense iron – an essential but deadly micronutrient. Some bacteria naturally fix nitrogen from the soil into a ...

The processes that govern the formation of symbiotic structures between nitrogen-fixing bacteria and legumes in the latter's roots remain largely a mystery to science, but researchers have recently ...

Announced in 2018, researchers from University of California, Davis, the University of Wisconsin and Mars Inc., continue to study a tropical variety of corn from Mexico that can fix atmospheric ...

Research into bacteria strains that are both competitive and efficient in nitrogen fixation and developing plants with those characteristics is the goal of NDSU research started in October 2024.

Heat-resilient biofertilizers could help crops cope with rising temperatures but engineering them has been slow and uncertain ...

A new study shows that nitrogen-fixing trees could help forests remove more heat-trapping COS from the atmosphere than previously thought. Black locust trees have a symbiotic relationship with ...

Nitrogen fixation by bacteria occurs in root nodules of nitrogen-fixing trees. This nitrogen fixer, a member of the genus Inga, is growing in a recovering tropical forest in Panama. Trees with the ...

Bacteria isolated from the roots of a corn plant and endowed with an unwavering ability to break the bonds between two nitrogen atoms could help minimize the use of fertilizer in farming, according to ...

Despite rice being the staple food for more than half of the world's population, its cultivation remains highly resource-intensive, requiring large amounts of water and chemical fertilizers. Even as ...