Engineering
perception of
N
2 -fixing
bacteria in
cereals
N
2 -fixing bacteria
Cereal crop
1
2
3
Engineering
expression of
Nitrogenase in
plant cell organelles
or
Plant cell Chloroplast
Plant cell mitochondria
Cereal crop
Transfer of N
2 -
fixing traits in
microorganisms
closely associated
with nonleguminous crops
Root associated Diazotrophs
Cereal crop
Fig. 15.3
Three approaches exploited by SynBio aspirants to enable cereal crops with N2
fixing ability
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