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Scientists have accomplished a key step in the long-term ambition to engineer nitrogen-fixation into non-legume cereal crops by demonstrating that barley can instruct soil bacteria to convert nitrogen from the air into ammonia fertiliser.

United kingdomPonraj paramasivanPhilip pooleTimothy haskettGiles oldroydDepartment of plant sciencesSainsbury laboratory cambridge universityUniversity of oxfordProceedings of the national academy sciencesMassachusetts institute of technologyUniversity of cambridge crop science centreCrop science centreProfessor oldroydMassachusetts instituteNational academyProfessor philip poole