Corn's aerial roots help recruit nitrogen-fixing bacteria (IMAGE)

University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

Corn's aerial roots help recruit nitrogen-fixing bacteria

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Using a chronosequence of corn lines, University of Illinois researchers found decades of breeding and reliance on chemical fertilizers prevents modern corn from recruiting nitrogen-fixing microbes.

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Alonso Favela, University of Illinois.

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