The research team of Dr. Sen-Lin Tang from the Biodiversity Research Center has confirmed the coupling between methane oxidation and nitrogen fixation, which may benefit in designing better sustainable management of rice fields, especially in the reduction of greenhouse gas methane. This study was published in May 2022 in mBio.

The Article: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01255-22

The first In vivo co-occurrence evidence of methane oxidation-nitrogen fixation in a single methanotrophic bacterial cell in rice root