Crop Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation

Nitrogen is an essential component of living organisms, such as proteins and nucleic acids. It is involved in a series of biological processes such as plant growth and development, substance synthesis, and metabolism. Nitrogen is abundant in the air, but plants cannot use it directly. Currently, agricultural production mainly uses large amounts of nitrogen fertilizers to improve crop yields. Still, synthetic nitrogen fertilizers not only consume much energy, but also cause ecological severe pollution.

Lifeasible continues to provide effective solutions to reduce fertilizer use, and crop symbiotic nitrogen fixation, which allows crops to grow without relying on chemical fertilizers while reducing agricultural fertilizer pollution. We have been deepening the crop nitrogen fixation pathway by creating new crop symbiotic nitrogen fixation systems and studying symbiotic nitrogen fixation gene regulation pathways, such as regulation of nitrogen-fixing enzyme activity in crops using genetic engineering technology and regulation of nitrogen-fixing gene expression to jointly promote crop symbiotic nitrogen fixation research and provide effective technical support and theoretical guidance for crop symbiotic nitrogen fixation research.

How to achieve symbiotic nitrogen fixation in crops

Lifeasible is dedicated to crop symbiotic nitrogen fixation research, and we create new symbiotic nitrogen fixation systems by extending existing symbiotic nitrogen fixation systems in nature to non-legume crops. In addition, we use genetic engineering or cellular engineering to transfer nitrogen-fixing genes into target crops, providing effective technical and theoretical guidance for symbiotic nitrogen fixation in crops.

• Expanding the scope of symbiotic nitrogen fixation and establishing new, non-legume crops and rhizobia symbiotic nitrogen fixation systems. The main focus is biotechnology to guide rhizobia to infest non-host plant cells.
• Genetic engineering techniques transfer nitrogen genes to non-legume crops to promote symbiotic nitrogen fixation by non-legumes. An example is the transfer of nif genes to plants via vectors.
• Nitrogen fixation cell engineering technology, through cell engineering but the introduction of rhizobia into non-host plant cells as a whole to establish a new symbiotic nitrogen fixation system, this technology can not only expand the range of legume hosts but also transfer symbiotic nodulation capacity to non-legume crops.

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Lifeasible penetrates deeply into the molecular regulation process of symbiotic nitrogen fixation genes and helps crops achieve increased nitrogen fixation by promoting the expression of nitrogen fixation genes in plants and regulating the expression of nitrogen fixation genes. Our research can enrich and develop the theory of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in crops, optimize nitrogen fertilizer uptake in crops, and play an essential role in reducing chemical fertilizer use, protecting the environment, ensuring food security, saving energy, and promoting sustainable agricultural development. If you are interested in us, please feel free to contact us.