Today, nitrogen fertilizer is made in fossil fuel-fired factories that can be thousands of miles from the nearest farms, but one California company is working on a game-changer. It produces fertilizer ...

Nitrogen fertilizers make it possible to feed the world's growing population, but they are also costly adn harm ecosystems. However, a few plants have evolved the ability to acquire their own nitrogen ...

Nitrogen is one of the primary nutrients critical for the survival of all living organisms. Although nitrogen is very abundant in the atmosphere, it is largely inaccessible in this form to most ...

An oxygen sensor protein protects the enzymatic machinery of biological nitrogen fixation from serious damage, and its use in biotechnology could help to reduce the use of synthetic fertilizer in ...

Most major crops, such as wheat and corn, require expensive nitrogen fertilizer to flourish. But what if bacteria could help ...