Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have shown that providing seeds with a protective coating that also supplies essential nutrients to the germinating plant could make it possible to grow crops in marginal lands.
Identification of a key molecule in nitrogen-fixing bacteria likely to help reduce fertilizer use [Registered]
Researchers found that lucerne appears to use an advanced process for putting nitrogen-fixing bacteria, rhizobia, to work more effectively after they are recruited from soil to fix nitrogen in special nodules on plant roots.
Researchers discover how legumes distinguish friendly from pathogenic bacteria [Registered]
Exactly how these plants are able to distinguish and welcome compatible rhizobia for this self-fertilizing activity – while halting infection by incompatible bacteria – has been a mystery.
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Raw sugar for March delivery settled at 19.82 cents/pound on January 18 after reaching a two-and-a-half-week high earlier in the session at 20.25 cents. The white sugar contract expiring in […]
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