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This project focuses on the genetic mechanisms behind the evolution of nitrogen-fixing root nodules in certain plants. By identifying genetic switches, it aims to develop crops that can thrive without nitrogen fertilizers, promoting sustainable agriculture.
Crop production worldwide is sustained through nitrogen fertilizer produced via the energy-demanding Haber-Bosch process.
One group of closely related plants evolved to become independent of nitrogen from the soil by engaging in symbiosis with bacteria that convert atmospheric nitrogen to plant-usable ammonium and are hosted within specialized organs, the root nodules.
Nodulation evolved several times independently but exclusively in four related orders, the Fabales, Fagales, Cucurbitales and Ro…
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