Planet-friendly and productive food production with Biological Nitrification Inhibition (BNI)-enabled crops

Abstract

BNI-enabled wheat was prototyped through intergeneric crossing with wild wheat, Leymus racemosus, and the introduction of the capacity into a high-yielding variety. Newly developed BNI-enabled wheat showed soil nitrification inhibition and increases ammonium in soil; therefore, nitrogen use efficiency was improved. BNI-enabled wheat showed higher performance in low nitrogen-input conditions, thus the environmental load by nitrogen application could be reduced with maintaining its productivity.