In part one of a four-week series, Teagasc’s agricultural catchment specialist Eddie Burgess outlines how and why nitrates ...

In Lake Mendota, Wisconsin, bacteria undergo an extraordinary cycle of evolution, changing their evolutionary process based ...

Cornell researchers have discovered a way for ammonia oxidizing archaea (AOA), one of the most abundant types of ...

If corn was ever jealous of soybean's relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, advancements in gene editing could one day even the playing field. A recent study shows that gene-edited bacteria can ...

If corn ever felt envious of soybean’s relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, advancements in gene editing may one day level the playing field.

If corn was ever jealous of soybean's relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, advancements in gene editing could one day even the playing field. A ...

Experts say limiting the release of nitrous oxide is crucial for keeping warming below the critical 1.5°C threshold of the ...

The bacterial cell wall is crucial to maintain viability. It has previously been suggested that Gram-positive bacteria have a periplasmic region between the cell membrane and peptidoglycan cell wall ...

Martian corn grown with wastewater-digesting bacteria had a survival rate of 33.3%, whereas corn grown in pure nitrogen fertilizer — which is more regularly used for crops on Earth — had a ...

Finding The Way To An Ammonia Economy As renewable energies progress, some limitations are becoming clearer. Renewables' intermittency requires energy storage, which could be batteries, as we explored ...

The biological route to fixing nitrogen is done by diazotrophs, nitrogen-fixing bacteria that contain an enzyme called nitrogenase. In contrast to the Haber-Bosch process, nitrogenase can be ...