UC Davis researchers engineered wheat that encourages soil bacteria to convert atmospheric nitrogen into plant-usable ...

Nitrogen fertilizer requires fossil fuels to make and can damage the environment after it’s used. Kula Bio is using microbes to cleanly recreate the same process. Ordinarily, the bacteria that Kula ...

Researchers are one step closer to understanding how some plants survive without nitrogen. Their work could eventually reduce the need for artificial fertilizer in crops such as wheat, maize, or rice.

Japanese mustards spinach grown in two inorganic nitrogen fertilizers (C1 and C2), and the biomass fwrtilizer at 1, 2, and 4 times the amount of nitrogen. New research published in npj Sustainable ...

Low nitrogen availability is the number one limitation to plant growth in most ecosystems. Farmers compensate by adding nitrogen-rich fertilizers to their crops, which is expensive and harmful to the ...

Corn is a key source of biofuel. Fertilizing it releases a potent greenhouse gas into the air, so the federal government had approved research to grow the crop with less nitrogen. The funding is now ...