date:Jul 17, 2012
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To feed the world by 2050 greater yields with less fertilisers will be needed, Conway said, andone answer is to breed cereal crops that can partner with bacteria in their roots to take in nitrogen from the atmosphere.
Professor Jules Pretty, deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Essex, said:If we cracked N fixation in cereals, in this case maize in Africa, it would be perhaps the greatest agricultural breakthrough of the century, perhaps of the millennium.
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