Investigation of diazotrophic endopytes in sugar-rich crops

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Human-induced climate change maybe the greatest environmental challenge ever faced by humankind. Amongst the solutions to decrease greenhouse gas emissions is a greater reliance on biologically, environmentally, and economically effective biofuels. Although much emphasis in North America has been put on bioethanol derived from corn and wheat, without addressing the greenhouse gas emissions derived from the inputs required to produce these crops, the greenhouse gas savings will be marginal. The production and use of nitrogen (N) fertilizer is the single largest source of greenhouse gas production in the production of these crops. This is largely due to the fact that after its application in the field a proportion of N fertilizer is converted to nitrous oxide, a gas which is 300 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas.