Tiny Fern Holds Big Promise for Sustainable Agriculture, Sinks Carbon Dioxide
Wednesday, July 11, 2018 - 10:44
in Earth & Climate
A tiny fern - with each leaf the size of a gnat - may provide global impact for sinking atmospheric carbon dioxide, fixing nitrogen in agriculture and shooing pesky insects from crops. The fern's full genome has been sequenced by a Cornell University and Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) scientist and his colleagues around the world, as reported in the journal Nature Plants.