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Engineering of Azotobacter chroococcum enables potential replacement of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer and mitigation of nitrogen pollutants release under medium-fertility field conditions.
Bioresource technology - 1 May 2026
Tian Ping, Wang Jun-Feng, Wang Dao-Yuan, Xun Yu-Dian, Shi Xiao-Hui, Chen Ming-Zhu, Liang Yun-Ying, Yang Mei-Ting, Li Qu-Sheng
Abstract excerpt
Engineered free-living diazotrophs with enhanced ammonium excretion have long been proposed as a promising biofertilizer to replace chemical nitrogen fertilizers synthesized via the Haber-Bosch process. Deletion of nifL has been widely used as a strategy to engineer nitrogen-fixing strains with enhanced NH4+ excretion. However, the effects of nifL mutation on the global expression of genes and proteins in...
Topics
- Azotobacter
- Fertilizers
- Nitrogen
- Nitrogen Fixation
- Bacterial Proteins
- Genetic Engineering
- Mutation
