stress Chaps. 1–4) [3]. To all the N in manure, sewage and chemicals a flood of 8.3
billion metric tons of plastic materials, composed out of the elements carbon
hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur chlorine (Chap. 1) release besides climatic
events, plants and the above, belowground bacterial, archaeal, fungal, and faunal
communities foot prints in soil profiles, visualizing and memorizing past and
ongoing climate events, soil properties dependent biological activities and TNF
production footprints.
Scientists, metabolic concept decoders, and synthetic biology designers try to
improve the application of TNF and to get new ideas towards detecting, optimizing,
and manipulating organisms as the nitrifying isolate Ca. Nitrospira inopinata
[7, 15, 17]. Chapter 6 discusses how farmers could progress in employing precision
or organic farming for achieving a more plant N demand adapted fertilization in
monocultures, cropped to few, high-yielding varieties. In increasingly into monoculturing converting landscapes pollinating insects find less food, bio-diversities are
decreasing, and more ecologically based management strategies are claimed [9, 12].
The politic is forced to handle, the more because in cities concentrating and through
TNF better nourished people contribute with their N loads to overused landscapes,
oceans, and the atmosphere. Although a progressing WWPT technology could
reduce the N input into Berlin’s river Havel or into the central Germany crossing
river Weser from 6500 to 3500 (Havel) and from 74,000 to 29,000 tons (Weser),
German regions as the 320,000 hectares agricultural land in Lower Saxony, that the
river Weser is crossing, in addition suffer under an industrialized pork and poultry
production, inter alia fed with worldwide produced soya. Between 1700 and 1980
agricultural land expanded by 466% and the annual soil N surplus of 100 kg per
hectare on the soil N buffer capacity drastically surpasses and disposed of manure
amounts the above, belowground soil bacterial, archaeal, fungal, and faunal communities must adapt [7, 9, 12, 16]. In consequence the European Union policy
suggests a N input reduction to 50 kg N per hectare that the ground water is less
polluted with nitrate and the atmosphere with NO and N 2 O [4]. On the question:
can organic and precision farming concepts help correcting the accidentally by
Haber–Bosch caused nowadays situation the book Chap. 6 tries to give an answer
and recycling scientists started constructing synthetic genomes at the pro- and
eukaryotic organism level to understand (a) the rules of life, (b) cell growth and
programmed cell death, and (c) to progress in cultivating organisms by in situ
observations with molecular biological techniques (Table 1).
In the pre-Haber–Bosch period organisms found ways to adapt on N shortage,
but also learnt in the neighbourhood of cadavers inter alia to manage N surplus and
r- and k-strategists developed (r = maximal intrinsic rate of natural increase; K
refers to carrying capacity). Orientating on the by nature pre-lived geniality a new,
better future, an improving the designing of proteins, enzymes production, and
industry economy is tried (Chaps. 4–6; [5–6, 8, 13]).
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