$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
They also generate environmental problems from degrading soil to runoff into rivers where they pollute fresh waters and coastal zones. This project aims to design and build a synthetic biological module that could work inside a cell to perform the function of “fixing” nitrogen for plants. Oxygen-Tolerant Nitrogenase ($1.87M).
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