The plant provides sugars from photosynthesis that are utilized by the nitrogen-fixing microorganism for the energy it needs for nitrogen fixation. In exchange for these carbon sources ...

Industrial nitrogen fixation has increased exponentially since ... In agricultural systems, fertilizers are used extensively to increase plant production, but unused nitrogen, usually in the ...

at 100 lb/ac compared to plants receiving no supplemental N (Figure 2). Nitrogen fixation by soybean decreases exponentially as N application rate increases, such that application of 45 lb/ac N can ...

A UCO team has applied the genome editing technique, which garnered a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020, to unravel the ...

Beans are a key food at the dietary level, boasting high nutritional value and constituting the most directly consumed legume ...

For years, attempts have therefore been made to transfer the natural nitrogen fixation in bacteria and ... serious problems with the transfer to plants is that nitrogenase is extremely sensitive ...

An oxygen sensor protein protects the enzymatic machinery of biological nitrogen fixation from serious damage ... serious problems with the transfer to plants is that nitrogenase is extremely ...

A recent study from the University of Illinois shows that gene-edited bacteria can supply the equivalent of 35 pounds of nitrogen from the air during early corn growth, which may ...

“It’s a very interesting paper,” said Verena Kreichbaumer, a plant cell biologist at Oxford Brookes University ... like amino acid and pyrimidine biosynthesis and for nitrogen fixation. “Seeing ...

However, in-depth studies of bean plants are hampered by a problem ... enzyme dedicated to the recycling of adenine in the nitrogen fixation cycle (adenine phosphoribosyl transferase—APRT ...

The edited versions boost the activity of a key gene involved in nitrogen fixation, making more of it available to plants. When applied at planting, the bacteria colonize plant roots, delivering ...