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Scientists discovered a small protein region that determines whether plants reject or welcome nitrogen-fixing bacteria. By tweaking only two amino acids, they converted a defensive receptor into one ...

You’ve heard it time and again from lawn care experts: If you’re going to fertilize your lawn only once a year, do so in late fall with a winterizer fertilizer. Look out the window, there’s still a ...

CAMBRIDGE, England, May 4 (UPI) --Scientists have found that an interaction between a common soil fungi and crop roots spurs root growth, enabling plants to absorb additional nutrients. The discovery ...

In laboratory experiments, the researchers successfully engineered this change in barley and found that the mechanism worked there as well.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Compensatory growth in response to simulated belowground herbivory was studied in the old-field clonal perennial Solidago canadensis. We grew ...

Fertilizer is used worldwide in farming. It's used to give plants a boost, increasing yield and ultimately farmers' profits. Fertilizer is used worldwide in farming. It's used to give plants a boost, ...

Is Milorganite OK to use as a winterizer fertilizer? I've noticed the nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium values in it are quite low, so I have to apply a lot of it to my lawn. Cost wise, it seems to be ...