Nitrogen: improving on nature

A joint BBSRC and NSF Ideas Lab

Co-funding

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Funding total

Not yet awarded.

No. of projects funded

Not yet awarded.

Purpose

To help meet the challenge of sustainably producing enough food for a growing population whilst reducing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions

Key aims

The key objective of this joint activity was to stimulate innovative and transformative research proposals that will reduce inputs of nitrogen fertilizers to non-leguminous crops whilst maintaining or increasing yield. This could be achieved by:

Giving crops the ability to fix their own nitrogen
Significantly increasing the nitrogen available to roots by manipulating the rhizosphere; or
Significantly improving the crop's nitrogen use efficiency

Contact

Debbie Harding, Strategy and Policy Manager
nitrogen.ideaslab@bbsrc.ac.uk
tel: 01793 414653