love to see such enthusiastic/joyful science tweets about something that reads like gobbledygook to mehttps://twitter.com/calebgrowsfood/status/1026883885995622400 …
seriously, though, is there a one-sentence summary of why people seem to be losing it over this paper about mucous-y corn?https://twitter.com/MichaelRaissig/status/1027091852678389760 …
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ahh, an explanation of all the !!!https://twitter.com/mwallenstein/status/1027177226045874176 …
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or more simply “imagine growing corn w/out industrial fertilizers. ”https://twitter.com/rickwasmith/status/1027210003567050752 …
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Green revolution = we made nitrogen from atmosphere, used it as fertilizer and changed the world. Now through breeding of this variety we could make all corn make its own nitrogen from the air and not need fertilizer.
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that is very cool... how many steps removed are we from that from this study? Is this study just a "this may be possible with the right tinkering" or a sign a big change in fertilizer will come?
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The race to commercialize will surely be on and as Howard put it “his job was to get it this far”
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thanks! I watch this space
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This is a long, science-y way of saying “first discovery of alien species”
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