No doubt we'll see this transplanted into GM crops for reduced fertilizer need.
Primary sources:
[1] https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(24)00182-X.pdf
[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38603509/
The first is open access.
Reminds me of this ancient plant that produces its own fertilizer from Nitrogen with bacteria https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/amaizeba...
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Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011438
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40101290 for more discussion (although IMHO this here is the better link)
Using this to reduce the need for fertilizer would be awesome, but the engineer in me has to ask “What could possibly go wrong”. Interstellar showed one scenario. A nitrogen absorbing crop-blight or species out-evolving out food crops and overtaking them. With far more fuel the odds would be in favor of species that can consume nitrogen, and how do you keep those at bay when it happens?