In the core of this technology, Pivot Bio offers PROVEN® 40, a second-generation product utilizing gene-edited microbes to efficiently fix atmospheric nitrogen even in soils fertilized synthetically.

Biological nitrogen fixation has an important role in the nitrogen cycle and provides a substantial input of fixed nitrogen into soils. It is widely distributed amongst the Bacteria and Archaea ...

Nitrogen-fixing genes could help grow more food using fewer resources Date: January 15, 2020 Source: Washington State University Summary: Scientists have transferred a collection of genes into ...

Scientists have transferred a collection of genes into plant-colonizing bacteria that let them draw nitrogen from the air and turn it into ammonia, a natural fertilizer. The work could help ...

A $1.7 million research grant has been awarded by the National Science Foundation to plant pathology professor Douglas Cook at the University of California, Davis, to fund research on nitrogen ...

Beyond genes: Protein atlas scores nitrogen fixing duet Date: October 17, 2016 Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison Summary: Of the many elusive grails of agricultural biotechnology, the ...

Bolhuis, H., Severin, I., Confurius-Guns, V. et al. Horizontal transfer of the nitrogen fixation gene cluster in the cyanobacterium Microcoleus chthonoplastes. ISME J 4, 121–130 (2010 ...

The team discovered the regulator known as “Fixation Under Nitrate” (FUN) after screening 150,000 individual legume plants in which genes had been knocked out to identify how plants control the switch ...