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Improving Nitrogen Use Efficient in Crop Plants Using Biotechnology Approaches

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Engineering Nitrogen Utilization in Crop Plants

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Plants require a source of fixed , or biologically reactive nitrogen (N) to produce molecules such as nucleotide bases and amino acids , in order to make macromolecules like DNA and proteins that are then required for the genome, cellular structures and overall growth. Low or insufficient available N limits the plant growth and yield (both biomass and grain) of crop plants. Plants obtain fixed-N from the soil as ammonia, nitrate, urea , amino acids and peptides.

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Beatty, P.H., Good, A.G. (2018). Improving Nitrogen Use Efficient in Crop Plants Using Biotechnology Approaches. In: Shrawat, A., Zayed, A., Lightfoot, D. (eds) Engineering Nitrogen Utilization in Crop Plants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92958-3_2

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