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Published online 28 June 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060626-7
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Crops could make their own fertilizer
Plants that build homes for bacteria could do without chemical nitrogen.
Plant geneticists have induced plants to form 'fertilizer factories' without the aid of bacteria that are normally crucial to the process. If the technology can be transferred to plants such as wheat or rice, industrial fertilization of these crops could be reduced or even abolished.
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