N2 FIXATION AND SYNBIO: “researchers will begin a program of novel research to revolutionize current farming methods by giving crops the ability to thrive without using costly, polluting manufactured fertilizers. Projects include: searching the planet for a lost bacterium with special properties; using synthetic biology to create a new intracellular machine allowing plants to produce fertilizer themselves; and engineering beneficial relationships between plants and microbes.””
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