https://peertube.lagbag.com/videos/watch/f7c05acb-5aad-43d1-a099-eca3470a4680 Two scientists on opposite sides of the world turned out to be studying the same evolutionary gamechanger. Their discovery — a new organelle called the Nitroplast — would end up rewriting an important rule of biology, and could help pave the way for plants that could make their own fertilizer. Video by: Jesse Nichols Executive Editors: Teresa Chin and Jess Stahl Special thanks to: Naotomo Umewaka, Mayu Katafuchi, Sachi Mulkey, Clayton Aldern, and Emily Zhang. Sources: Jon Zehr Kyoko Hagino Tyler Coale Ramon Massana Luis Rubio Solène Moulin Coale et al. 2024 “Nitrogen-fixing organelle in a marine alga” https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk1075 Cornejo-Castillo et al. 2024 “Metabolic trade-offs constrain the cell size ratio in a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis” https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00182-X Harding et al. 2018 “Symbiotic unicellular cyanobacteria fix nitrogen in the Arctic Ocean” https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1813658115 Hagino et al. 2013 “Discovery of an Endosymbiotic Nitrogen-Fixing Cyanobacterium UCYN-A in Braarudosphaera bigelowii” https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0081749 Thompson et al. 2012 “Unicellular Cyanobacterium Symbiotic with a Single-Celled Eukaryotic Alga” https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1222700 Moisander et al. 2010 “Unicellular cyanobacterial distributions broaden the oceanic N2 fixation domain” https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1185468 Zehr et al. 2001 “Unicellular cyanobacteria fix N2 in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean” https://www.nature.com/articles/35088063 Sat, 11 Jul 2026 03:49:06 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.lagbag.com https://peertube.lagbag.com/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://peertube.lagbag.com/videos/watch/f7c05acb-5aad-43d1-a099-eca3470a4680 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.lagbag.com/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.