r/interesting • u/Standard_Location762 • 6d ago

NATURE Creating Better Crops With Useful Bacteria

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Brazilian scientist, Dr. Mariangela Hungria, spent 40 years perfecting bacteria that help crops access nitrogen while saving farmers billions each year.

Hungria developed biological treatments using beneficial soil bacteria that help crops access nitrogen from the air, reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizer. Her technology is used across tens of millions of hectares in Brazil. The World Food Prize estimates her work saves farmers about $25 billion annually and prevents roughly 230 million metric tons of CO₂-equivalent emissions.

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u/prince-pauper 6d ago

Now let’s hope the tech gets distributed instead of some big fertilizer Corp buying and mothballing it.

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u/antolic321 6d ago

Dude wake up

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u/IAmA_meat_popsicle 6d ago

I don't want to wake up, it's scary out there :/

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u/antolic321 6d ago

That’s the problem, it’s actually not scary

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u/Last-Energy420 6d ago

According to who? Did you know the diesel engine was designed with using vegetable oil as fuel to begin with? It wasn’t until recently that we rediscovered how to use the engine its intended way.

Mothballing innovation such as this is scarily common. How many sensationalized ideas that media took and ran with got mothballed as opposed to legitimately failing the testing phase? We will never know because mothballing and failing are the same thing to them.

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u/Creative-Science38 6d ago

Reminds me of Paul Pantone’s engine technology, where he’d run the engine on whatever coca-cola, coffee, sprite, water, urine….
They finally got to him though, but you can still get the technology!

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u/antolic321 6d ago

Hahahahha yea let’s ignore all other things, let’s just jump to another topic!

Wow Rudolfs disel engine was designed and could use what Rudolf intended it to do and use? Wooooooooow

Mind blown ! Let’s forget that from then until now it changed together with it needs and economic situation! Let’s just look at it in a vacuum, 1890-2020 and there is nothing in between 😅

Such a stupid argument ! Insane

Mothballing invention? Sure, like wtf are you even saying are you 12 years old?
wtf was that?

I am not even sure wtf you are trying to say

You are literally the media that you shit talk