Nitrogen is a critical limiting element for plant growth and production. It is a major component of chlorophyll, the most important pigment needed for photosynthesis, as well as amino acids, the key ...

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 ...

Phytoplankton across most of the Arctic Ocean are now starving for nitrogen rather than struggling for light, a shift that ...

A new research initiative led by associate professor of bacteriology Betül Kaçar is positioned to transform agriculture and address some of the world’s most pressing ecological and economic challenges ...

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

GRDC-backed initiative seeks elite rhizobia strains to boost chickpea productivity, expand cultivation zones, and reduce dependence on synthetic fertilisers Australia is undertaking its most ...

Photocatalytic nitrogen fixation harnesses solar energy to drive the direct conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia under ambient conditions. By employing semiconductor-based catalysts or ...

Red alder is a nitrogen-fixing plant species. Photo by Steven Perakis. CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new study indicates that forests, prairies and other natural areas around the globe acquire less nitrogen ...

Ancient cycad lineages that survived the extinction of the dinosaurs may have done so by relying on symbiotic bacteria in their roots to fix atmospheric nitrogen. The finding came from an effort to ...

A typical day for Jieshun Lin began with a long bus ride to the greenhouses. “For 10 hours each day, I would pull up plants and wash their roots, looking carefully at each individual plant. [Up to] 10 ...