Thursday, February 02, 2006
The Department of Medical Biochemist and the Institute of Biophisics Carlos Chagas Filho, of Federal University of Rio De Janeiro (UFRJ), the National Agrobiology Center of Embrapa and the National Laboratory of Scientific Computation - LNCC, sponsored by Faperj, are in a research project on the genetic sequency of the Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus bacterium, that it is found in the sugarcane, potato-candy and coffee. It removes nitrogen from the air (NO2) and transfers it in assimilable form to the plants, acting as an important natural fertilizer. With the sequency, those plants will become it more efficient, spent less in nitrogen fertilizers and, thus, increase the national agricultural productivity.
