New tech enables any plant to fix nitrogen

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http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/2013/july/world-changing-technology-enables-crops-to-take-nitrogen-from-the-air-.aspx

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Excellent work. I hope it is not licensed to any one particular company, and if it was paid for by public funds, it should be publicly available technology.

Combine this with mycorrhizal fungi that can translocate phosphorous, and those two technologies take care of 2/3 of the plant fertilizer business.

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This one is a terrifying fascination???

I get the same feeling as the start of "I am Legend" as the cure for cancer becomes the cause of the apocalypse.

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