Nancy Duan, Michelle Liberton and Lingxia Zhao, Washington University in St. Louis (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Nancy Duan, Michelle Liberton and Lingxia Zhao, Washington University in St. Louis

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Nancy Duan (left), Michelle Liberton and Lingxia Zhao are members of a team that has taken the first proof-of-principle steps toward inserting the genes needed to fix nitrogen -- otherwise found only in bacteria and the bacteria-like Archae -- into the cells of crop plants.

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James Byard/WUSTL

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