Landus Cooperative is celebrating the grand opening of a new 75,000-square-foot fertilizer production and distribution facility in Boone, Iowa, this week. According to the cooperative, the $15 million ...

SHANGHAI, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- A team of Chinese and international scientists has uncovered the precise mechanism behind one of nature's most vital alliances: the partnership between legume plants and ...

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is standing up a new “center of excellence” in an effort to reduce the use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer by 12%, the equivalent of removing 10 million cars ...

Researchers have found a way to reduce the amount of nitrogen fertilizer needed to grow cereals such as rice, wheat and corn. Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have found a way to ...

Plants are naturally “solar-powered,” but there is a carbon footprint associated with growing them as a crop. The fuel used to power tractors and other equipment is part of that footprint, but the ...

A research team demonstrates that China can maintain food security while sharply reducing nitrogen pollution by cutting ...

Climate change also alters nitrogen in soils and plants, shaping food quality, water safety, and pollution risks worldwide.