These farmers are cutting pollution and fighting hunger — with bacteria Mariangela Hungria won the 2025 World Food Prize for her work on microbes that feed plants nitrogen, allowing farmers to slash fertilizer costs and pollution.

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Liming enhances the abundance and stability of nitrogen-cycling microbes: the buffering effect of long-term lime application - Biology and Fertility of Soils Lime application (liming) has historically been used to ameliorate soil acidity in grasslands. Liming effectively improves soil pH, plant productivity, and soil physicochemical properties, but the lon...

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