Tag - Green Revolution

Image: Tennessee Valley Authority, 1942/ Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Potential new fertiliser

This month’s winner in the ‘so simple it’s positively brilliant (but why did nobody think of it before?)’ category is Damar López-Arredondo and Luis Herrera-Estrella’s paper entitled, ‘Engineering phosphorous [sic.]...

Image: Scene from a mural in the tomb of Sennedjem, Egypt.

A nod in the right direction?

Congratulations are in order to the John Innes Centre (Norwich, UK) for its recent award of nearly US$10m ‘to test the feasibility of developing cereal crops capable of fixing nitrogen as an environmentally-sustainable...