Among tricks geneticists want to develop in cereal crops: Fixing Nitrogen, which would save farmers a bundle in raising corn, wheat, and other grain, which need added nitrogen for high yields. It'd save rivers and lakes a lot of pollution from field runoff as well. Univ. of Alberta biologists are working to transfer some genes from legumes, which fix their own nitrogen, to a wide variety of crops that can't.
As seen on the Kiplinger Agricultural Letter
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