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1 week agoMicrobe discovery holds promise for sustainable biotechnology
Microorganisms harness sulfide oxidation and iron-oxide reduction to drive carbon fixation and hold promise for sustainable biotechnology applications.
And, well, it worked remarkably well. The plants carrying all the genes for the McG cycle weighed two to three times as much as control plants that only had some of the genes. They had more leaves, the leaves themselves were larger, and the plants produced more seeds. In a variety of growing conditions, the plants with an intact McG cycle incorporated more carbon, and they did so without increasing their water uptake.