The latest discovery of the genetic regulator that turns off nitrogen fixation when soil nitrate levels are high allowed scientists to remove the gene in model legumes, ensuring they continued to ...

Beans are a key food at the dietary level, boasting high nutritional value and constituting the most directly consumed legume ...

Key work combining soil science, pasture management, and dairy production research ensures more sustainable farming practices ...

Scientists from member organisations of the WA Agricultural Research Collaboration (WAARC) have developed the world’s first ...

Just like modern legumes and other plants that use nitrogen fixation, these cycads trade their sugars with bacteria in their roots in exchange for nitrogen plucked from the atmosphere. What originally ...

A NEW header-harvestable crop-pasture legume suited to mildly acidic-alkaline soils in low-medium rainfall areas has been ...

“We found the molecular mechanisms through which light regulates legume-rhizobia symbiotic root nodule formation and nitrogen fixation,” says Wang. “Through this mechanism, legumes can ...

A UCO team has applied the genome editing technique, which garnered a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020, to unravel the ...

WAARC's HALO team has developed the world’s first cultivar of the legume pasture species, Trigonella balansae, a header ...