Wheat plants were engineered to pull some nitrogen from the air
It points toward a future where staple crops like wheat need less synthetic fertilizer — meaning ...
Rice plants use a chemical signal to halt branch growth when phosph...
Understanding how rice controls its own growth in poor soil could help farmers breed varieties th...
Cattails in treatment wetlands pull phosphorus from wastewater for compost
It means the phosphorus that would otherwise pollute your local waterways could instead end up ba...
White lupins deploy novel root acids to unlock soil phosphorus
Understanding how lupins unlock phosphorus from soil could lead to crops that need far less chemi...
Mosses feed nitrogen-hungry tundra plants by harvesting it from air
It shows that the humble mosses you see blanketing forest floors and tundra are quietly working a...
Pineapple peel cellulose based eco-friendly fertilizer nanocomposit...
It means the fertilizers of the future could be made from fruit scraps rather than petrochemicals...
Hidden players in plant response to sulfur deficit and beyond: insi...
Sulfur is a nutrient that affects the flavor of vegetables like broccoli and garlic, the health o...
Long-term localization experiments reveal aging degradation mechani...
Those small plastic-coated fertilizer pellets you spread in your garden or that farmers use on cr...
Coal and manure waste combined by microbes yields garden-ready compost
Compost that could end up in your garden or on the farms that grow your food might one day be mad...