07-26-2015, 12:17 PM
Can you provide a link re nitrogen fixation?
So plants don't actually fix nitrogen - they harbor symbiotic bacterium's that fix nitrogen. Except for golden rice, most gmo traits only incorporate one foreign gene of interest. It would take multiple insertions to acheive a system of nitrogen fixation in a non-leguminous plant.
Note: legumes already host nitrogen fixing bacteria - soybeans for example.
Sounds like a great idea though i've yet to hear anything about this!
So plants don't actually fix nitrogen - they harbor symbiotic bacterium's that fix nitrogen. Except for golden rice, most gmo traits only incorporate one foreign gene of interest. It would take multiple insertions to acheive a system of nitrogen fixation in a non-leguminous plant.
Note: legumes already host nitrogen fixing bacteria - soybeans for example.
Sounds like a great idea though i've yet to hear anything about this!