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    Researchers transfer nitrogen-harvesting genes into new bacteria

    2026-05-29T11:33:00Z

    New research has identified a key cluster of genes that can be moved from rhizobia bacteria that harvest nitrogen into bacteria that don’t — raising the possibility that microbes that dwell in cereal crops could eventually be engineered to atmospherically harvest nitrogen as well.