date:Jan 19, 2020
Peters said. Transforming food production to work without nitrogen-based fertilisers could be a huge development in underdeveloped countries. Adding these microbes would be like pouring kombucha on roots.
Peters lab specialises in studying metabolic processes in bacteria, or how they create and use energy. His lab provided a blueprint for how nitrogen fixation works in different organisms. Then his co-authors, synthetic biologists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, can create the me