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How cotton growers are using biological nitrogen to improve ROI, boost yields, and enhance early-season crop development.

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All known life forms require nitrogen. However, more than 70% of all nitrogen on Earth occurs as inert, triple-bonded dinitrogen gas in the atmosphere, which is generally biologically unavailable. A ...

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 ...

A new study shows that nitrogen-fixing trees could help forests remove more heat-trapping COS from the atmosphere than previously thought. Black locust trees have a symbiotic relationship with ...

In Death Valley National Park, which straddles the California-Nevada border, mesquite plants (genus Prosopis) thrive in extreme aridity. While most vegetation types must extract most of their ...

Joy B. Winbourne is in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854, USA. Barker and colleagues tested whether ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers recently discovered two new phytoplankton species: Epithemia pelagica and Epithemia catenata. The species were found to carry out ...