Rice production is heavily dependent on nitrogen fertilizers, particularly in China, where application rates are two to three ...

A new collaborative study from The University of Western Australia has found that partially replacing synthetic nitrogen ...

A comprehensive review published in Nitrogen Cycling highlights significant advances in understanding the soil nitrogen cycle, emphasizing the critical role of microbial processes and innovative ...

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Fertiliser and fuel seem to be a big topic of conversation at the moment. With the price of wheat, and unfavourable weather ...

UC Davis researchers engineered wheat that encourages soil bacteria to convert atmospheric nitrogen into plant-usable fertilizer. By boosting a natural compound in the plant, the wheat triggers ...

Soil drives everything in a garden, yet most people focus only on what grows above ground. Rich, well-balanced soil fuels ...

Six of our nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed – and industrial agriculture are the main culprit. That is what a team of scientists under Johan Rockström reported in an article published ...