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Download PDF Scientists have found a natural way to trick the plants own metabolism to use and assimilate more nitrogen and fix more carbon from the atmosphere without any negative effects. CPM reveals the plant metabolite responsible and its relationship with the ‘imposter molecule’. 2-oxo stimulates the plant to do what it would do naturally, but it’s doing it faster and for longer By Lucy de la Pasture The backstory to pyroglutamate (PGA), used as a seed treatment, reveals it is in fact an ‘imposter’ molecule subsidising for a natural plant metabolite – 2-oxoglutaramate. The metabolite was discovered by Dr Pat J Unkefer and the late Dr Thomas J Knight while working at Los Alamos National Laboratory – a prestigious scientific establishment in the United States that has been responsible for landmark innovations such as the nuclear reactor, medical isotopes and fuel cells to name but a few. Pat has spent most of her career working on nitrogen (N) utilisation. Now retired from Los Alamos, she’s still very much involved in seeing her discovery become a commercial reality for the first time as Twoxo, officially launched in the UK at CropTec in November last year. What does the science say?…
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