Science and Agriculture: Create a Microchip to See How Bacteria Swim in the Soil and Fix Nitrogen

Scientists and scientists from the National University of Córdoba, in cooperation with colleagues from the Universidad Nacional de la Plata and Chile, created a microchip with microscopic channels that mimic the pores of the soil. It is a device that fits in the yolk of a finger and allows us to observe something key to understand the behavior of the bacteria that fix nitrogen: how they move or swim between the tiny degrees of soil. Thus, when s…

The bacteria move. “Swim” between the tiny grains of the soil. Studying this mobility can help improve the biofertilizers of economically important crops such as soy and peanuts. But, for scientists it was always complex to investigate this in the laboratory. Until scientists and scientists from the National University of Córdoba, in cooperation with colleagues from the National University of La Plata and Chile created a microchip with microscop…