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$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

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Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Susan Rosser, University of Glasgow; and Bill Rutherford, Imperial College London. However, there is only one recorded sighting of this bacterium, which grows in toxic environments. Oxygen-Tolerant Nitrogenase ($1.87M). Some plants have developed close symbiotic relationships with bacteria.

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