EastCoastBioCrew

October 21, 2023

EastCoastBioCrew # RhizeUP: Engineering Rhizobium to Combat the Root of Nutrient Runoff # Modern agricultural practices rely heavily on phosphate fertilizers. However, due to the tendency of phosphate to bond with minerals in the soil, most phosphate molecules exist in a form unusable to plants. These mineral phosphates are a driving force behind the nutrient pollution and runoff in waterways that leads to algal blooms. RhizeUP aims to engineer Rhizobium tropici, a nutrient-fixing soil bacteria known for its high tolerance to environmental stresses and which is a successful microsymbiont of several legumes. ...