{"id":224642,"date":"2025-11-06T13:04:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/a-genetic-switch-lets-plants-accept-nitrogen-fixing-bacteria"},"modified":"2025-11-06T13:04:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:04:27","slug":"a-genetic-switch-lets-plants-accept-nitrogen-fixing-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/a-genetic-switch-lets-plants-accept-nitrogen-fixing-bacteria","title":{"rendered":"A genetic switch lets plants accept nitrogen-fixing bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-genetic-switch-lets-plants-accept-nitrogen-fixing-bacteria.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers are one step closer to understanding how some plants survive without nitrogen. Their work could eventually reduce the need for artificial fertilizer in crops such as wheat, maize, or rice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are one step closer to greener and climate-friendlier food production,\u201d say Kasper R\u00f8jkj\u00e6r Andersen and Simona Radutoiu, both professors of molecular biology at Aarhus University. The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09696-3\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n<p>The two researchers led a new study where they discovered an important key to understanding how we can reduce agriculture\u2019s need for artificial fertilizer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers are one step closer to understanding how some plants survive without nitrogen. Their work could eventually reduce the need for artificial fertilizer in crops such as wheat, maize, or rice. \u201cWe are one step closer to greener and climate-friendlier food production,\u201d say Kasper R\u00f8jkj\u00e6r Andersen and Simona Radutoiu, both professors of molecular biology at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,493,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-climatology","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}