Alonso Favela (IMAGE)

University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

Alonso Favela

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Alonso Favela (pictured) and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign colleagues found that genes from corn's wild relative, teosinte, inhibited nitrifying and denitrifying microbes in soil, a trait that could reduce nitrogen loss and greenhouse gas emissions from corn fields if bred into commercial corn lines. 

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Lauren Quinn, University of Illinois

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