Discovery of nitrogen-fixing corn variety could reduce need for added fertilizer
This is a very big deal.  Scientists have been looking for five decades for corn in the wild that fixed its own nitrogen.  Commercial nitrogen fertilizer is made from natural gas using the Haber process:<p><a href="http://guichon-valves.com/faqs/nitrogen-fertilizers-manufacturing-process-of-nitrogen-fertilizers/" rel="nofollow">http://guichon-valves.com/faqs/nitrogen-fertilizers-manufact...</a><p>Now it may take a decade or more for corn breeders to create a new variety of  this corn that produces commercially viable yields but it will change not just the fertilizer industry but farming overall when it happens.