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Building a roadmap to bioengineer plants that produce their own nitrogen fertilizer - EurekAlert

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 with the help of bacteria, and a new study helps explain how they did it, not once, but multiple times.

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