$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
it needs to be converted into a form that plants can use. Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Susan Rosser, University of Glasgow; and Bill Rutherford, Imperial College London. These bacteria are held in root nodules and convert the nitrogen gas found abundantly in the air into nitrogen fertilizer that plants need for growth.
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