Biologists aim to engineer crops that can eat nitrogen straight from the air.
  • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    71·
    9 months ago

    Um, do we want every crop to be Bananas? 1 evolved new blight from extinction?

  • NotAtWork@startrek.website
    3·
    9 months ago

    Fertilize as in fertilizer, not fertilize as in Pollinate.

    edit: wow, no one read the article before they got offended by the head line.

  • taanegl@lemmy.world
    41·
    9 months ago

    Scientists: “sir, the bees are dying”

    Executive: “Can we make plants fuck them selves?”

  • Trafficone@slrpnk.net
    2·
    9 months ago

    For the people who read “fertilize” and think pollinate: plants already do this a lot.

    I’m not going to knock this research, but we’re doing so much work in understanding and cultivating the soil microbiome which seems more promoting. For example, bean plants, especially will do a lot to cultivate nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and farmers are starting to add bacteria to the soil like they would add fertilizer.