$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 23, 2013
Plants need nitrogen to grow, and by 2015, more than 190.4 Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Susan Rosser, University of Glasgow; and Bill Rutherford, Imperial College London. NSF solely awarded one of the four projects. million tons of it will be needed to supply the world’s food. Oxygen-Tolerant Nitrogenase ($1.87M).
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