The long, leguminous quest to give crops nitrogen superpowers

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By Matt SimonSep 3, 2022, 10:30 am183 pts
This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If crops could feel envy, it’d be for legumes. Bean plants have a superpower. Or more accurately, they share one. They’ve developed symbiotic relationships with bacteria that process…

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