Beans are a key food at the dietary level, boasting high nutritional value and constituting the most directly consumed legume. They also have a “superpower” in the field: they are able to fix nitrogen to the soil, so they reduce the need for nitrogen fertilizers (and their associated pollution) for them and the crops with which they are planted. Beans are a key food at the dietary level, boasting high nutritional value and constituting the most directly consumed legume. They also have a “superpower” in the field: they are able to fix nitrogen to the soil, so they reduce the need for nitrogen fertilizers (and their associated pollution) for them and the crops with which they are planted. Biotechnology Agriculture Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories
CRISPR technique helps reveal how bean genes could improve nitrogen fixation
