Nitrogen is a critical limiting element for plant growth and production. It is a major component of chlorophyll, the most important pigment needed for photosynthesis, as well as amino acids, the key ...

Carbon and nitrogen determination is therefore not simply an analytical parameter; it acts as a link between laboratory ...

Nitrogen is vital for all known life. Yet most nitrogen on Earth is in the atmosphere as di-nitrogen gas, which many organisms can’t use. Fortunately, there are microbes that can tap into this ...

Six of our nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed—and industrial agriculture are the main culprit. That is what a team of scientists under Johan Rockström reported in an article published in ...

Xiaoyuan Yan, Jun Shan, Xiaomin Wang, Baozhan Wang, Shuang-Jiang Liu, Ping Zhang, Yan Zhang, Jinrui Ling, Ouping Deng, Chen Wang & Baojing Gu ...

Climate change is not only warming the planet and disrupting rainfall, it is also quietly rewiring the way nitrogen moves through the world’s croplands, forests, and grasslands. This hidden shift in ...