Overestimated nitrogen availability has led climate models to exaggerate how much plant growth can offset rising CO2 levels. Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are a major driver of ...

Scientists discovered a small protein region that determines whether plants reject or welcome nitrogen-fixing bacteria. By ...

Nitrogen is vital for all known life. Yet most nitrogen on Earth is in the atmosphere as di-nitrogen gas, which many organisms can’t use. Fortunately, there are microbes that can tap into this ...

If this trait can be transferred successfully, these crops could become self-sufficient in nitrogen. This would reduce the ...

Scientists at the University of California Davis recently developed wheat plants that stimulate the production of their own ...

By coaxing soil bacteria into fixing more nitrogen, gene-edited wheat shows how crops might one day sidestep synthetic ...

Here’s the thing about nitrogen. It’s essential for life—a key ingredient in both DNA and proteins. It also makes up seventy-eight per cent of the air we breathe. It would be useful for us if we could ...

Soil microbes remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it underground, revealing an overlooked pathway for storage in ...

To reconstruct the C. orbicularis symbiont's metabolism, we sequenced the genome of purified bacteria to provide a basis for subsequent global proteomic analyses. As expected, the symbiont's genome ...

Most organisms require nitrogen to produce biological molecules, such as nucleotides and amino acids, but until recently, only prokaryotes were known to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. “It’s a very ...

As the most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere, nitrogen has been an attractive option as a source of renewable energy. But nitrogen gas doesn't break apart under normal conditions, presenting a ...