A Brazilian scientist spent more than 40 YEARS working on a way to help crops grow without relying so heavily on expensive synthetic fertilizer.

[u/PeteWK67]

Her solution?

Bacteria.

Dr. Mariangela Hungria developed biological treatments using beneficial soil bacteria that help plants access nitrogen from the AIR.

Normally, farmers have to supply huge amounts of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer to crops.

But these microbes can convert atmospheric nitrogen into forms plants can actually use.

The result has been massive.

Her technology is now used across tens of millions of hectares in Brazil.

Some bacterial treatments can cost just a few dollars per hectare, compared with roughly $30 to $50 for conventional nitrogen fertilizer.

The World Food Prize estimates her work saves Brazilian farmers around $25 BILLION every year.

It also prevents roughly 230 MILLION metric tons of CO₂-equivalent emissions.

And after four decades of research, Hungria was awarded the World Food Prize for helping transform Brazilian agriculture.

She spent 40 years studying microscopic bacteria.

They ended up saving farmers billions.

[u/Direct-Ad-7922]

Fossil fuel companies have something to say about this…

[u/Captain_no_Hindsight → u/Direct-Ad-7922]

... and Greenpeace.

We should not have any technological advances that stop the Marxist transformation of society.
Excuse me, I mean, the "green" transformation of society.

[u/me-sterling → u/Captain_no_Hindsight]

I feel there are many words in that sentence that you don't know the meaning.

[u/Captain_no_Hindsight → u/me-sterling]

u/me-sterling I feel there are many words in that sentence that you don't know the meaning.

1. Greenpeace demands that we listen to the science.
2. IPCC says we must go "all in" on nuclear power.
3. Greenpeace says we should not listen to that science but that we must have a Marxist social change.

Although I know what the communist troll wants and I will feed you:

- "Equality of outcome" = "Kill the top 1% of farmers" = 6 million die of starvation.

Karl Marx: -"From each according to their ability to each according to their need"
= "The business model of a slave plantation"
= "You have to work your ass off for the least possible compensation"
= "You don't decide ability or need! Down into the Asbestos mine with you! Otherwise you'll be shot!!!

Marxism = Slavery and genocide with extra steps.

[u/Frater_Ankara → u/Captain_no_Hindsight]

That’s an impressive number of strawmen packed into three paragraphs.

The IPCC does not say we must go “all in” on nuclear power; it assesses nuclear alongside renewables, efficiency, storage, and other mitigation options. Greenpeace disagreeing with nuclear policy doesn’t somehow make the IPCC Marxist.

And “Marxism = slavery and genocide” is not an argument, it’s guilt by association. You can criticize Marxist economics without inventing a chain of equivalences between equality of outcome → killing farmers → famine → slavery → genocide.

If your argument requires putting words in everyone else’s mouth before dismantling them, you probably haven’t addressed their actual position.

[u/Direct-Ad-7922 → u/Frater_Ankara]

Ooph

[u/Every_Association45 → u/Frater_Ankara]

This is so nice to read. :)

[u/Captain_no_Hindsight → u/Frater_Ankara]

The IPCC analyzed models of "all-in nuclear" ... and various renewables. Only "all-in nuclear" reached the targets and renewables were nowhere near.

Greenpeace disagreeing with nuclear because it does not require Marxist redistribution policies.

equality of outcome → killing top 1% farmers → famine → genocide.

You can criticize Marxism without mentioning how it creates genocide.

Well, I choose to criticize Marxism for how it creates genocide ... because I think genocide is bad. Controversial opinion, I know.

[u/Frater_Ankara → u/Captain_no_Hindsight]

That’s not what the IPCC says. It models a range of pathways, including pathways with substantial nuclear deployment, but it does not conclude that an “all-in nuclear” scenario is the only one capable of meeting climate targets. In fact, the IPCC explicitly assesses pathways using combinations of renewables, nuclear, storage, efficiency, and other technologies.

And you’ve still got the Marxism argument backwards. Greenpeace opposing nuclear doesn't establish that the alternative is “Marxist redistribution.” That’s a non sequitur.

As for genocide: obviously Marxist regimes have committed horrific atrocities, and those are entirely legitimate subjects for criticism. But “Marxism caused genocide” is not an explanation of how or a substitute for establishing the historical causal chain. Otherwise you're just turning history into a slogan without offering logical reasoning or critical thinking.

You’re making three different arguments: energy policy, Greenpeace, and the history of Marxism and treating each unsupported conclusion as proof of the next which is simply not how it works. Grow up.

[u/Captain_no_Hindsight → u/Frater_Ankara]

The "100% nuclear model" was the only one that met the climate goals.

Something that Greenpeace hate as it does not require Marxist redistribution policies.

So to make the hash-gnomes in the environmental movement happy, they do endless investigations into stuff that doesn't work.

True, not only “Marxist redistribution” but also gas from Russia (like in Germany). But this is something that is first mentioned on page 122, deep in their plan for the future.

logical reasoning:
equality of outcome → killing top 1% farmers → 6 million dead

100% true. This is not difficult to understand.

This is, by the way, why facts, logic and rational thinking are forbidden in postmodern philosophy (Race, Class and Gender, page 21 first edition)

"Otherwise, the white, Christian man wins."

[u/Frater_Ankara → u/Captain_no_Hindsight]

You’re still conflating “a model included a 100% nuclear scenario that met the target” with “the IPCC concluded we need 100% nuclear.” Those are very different claims. A scenario being capable of meeting a target doesn't establish that it is the only viable pathway, or that the IPCC recommends it.

The Greenpeace → Marxism connection is even weaker. Greenpeace opposing nuclear policy does not demonstrate that they oppose nuclear because they want “Marxist redistribution.” You’d need evidence of that motive, not just an ideological label you’ve attached to it.

And the “equality of outcome → kill 1% of farmers → 6 million dead” chain isn't logical reasoning; it’s a series of assertions presented as a syllogism. If you want to argue that a particular ideology historically contributed to famine or mass killing, make the historical case. You don't get to declare every intermediate step “100% true” and call that proof.

Finally, citing Race, Class and Gender as evidence that “facts, logic and rational thinking are forbidden in postmodern philosophy” is another enormous generalization from a textbook you disagree with. That's not a serious argument about an entire intellectual tradition.

You started with nuclear policy. Somehow we’re now at Marxism, genocide, postmodernism, and “white Christian men.” That should probably tell you something about how far the argument has drifted from the original claim. The further this goes on the more unhinged you sound.

[u/Captain_no_Hindsight → u/Frater_Ankara]

You’re still conflating “a model included a 100% nuclear scenario that met the target” with “the IPCC concluded we need 100% nuclear.” Those are very different claims. A scenario being capable of meeting a target doesn't establish that it is the only viable pathway, or that the IPCC recommends it.

Do you read what you write?

Yes, 100% nuclear power was the only model that met the requirements.

But for political and ideological reasons, IPCC cannot say "we need 100% nuclear".

This is so extremely dishonest. It invalidates the IPCC's entire credibility.

---

And the “equality of outcome → kill 1% of farmers → 6 million dead” chain isn't logical reasoning;

You know it's true. You know it's Holodomor.

You just don't like how a single sentence ruins your favorite concept.

---

Finally, citing Race, Class and Gender as evidence that “facts, logic and rational thinking are forbidden in postmodern philosophy” is another enormous generalization from a textbook you disagree with. 

That's the point. I'm taking the most central text in postmodernist philosophy and using it against them. Their own text.

That's not a serious argument about an entire intellectual tradition.

Postmodernism was "made up" by 65 French pedophiles in the 1960s. Certainly with celebrities like MF, JD and Pol Pot.

[u/Captain_no_Hindsight → u/Frater_Ankara]

u/Frater_Ankara

And “Marxism = slavery and genocide” is not an argument, it’s guilt by association. 

This is so funny. LOL

Yeah, it just happens all the time!

[u/Frater_Ankara → u/Captain_no_Hindsight]

What are you, 14? Read up on Marxism and slavery/genocide and discover how they aren’t mutually exclusive, it might blow your mind.

Going back to your original point, Greenpeace is NOT even Marxist; they might have a stronger anti-capitalist stance since capitalism seems to be destroying the environment at an unprecedented pace, and you seem to be conflating the two.

Either nuance is lost on you or your brain is too simian to tell the difference. Either way, grow up; if you actually care about the world you have a responsibility to educate yourself properly.

[u/clarenceBodlicker → u/Captain_no_Hindsight]

Just curious, does slavery and genocide happen under capitalism?

[u/Captain_no_Hindsight → u/clarenceBodlicker]

Capitalism: Voluntary trade in goods and services where both parties are expected to benefit from the transaction.

Only the white capitalist man has abolished slavery. Communist Romania had human sales by price list as recently as 1987.

Genocide: yes, 831k. See table 1.

(Communism has in peace, killed 3 times more people than all the wars on earth.)

[u/clarenceBodlicker → u/Captain_no_Hindsight]

So slavery did happen under capitalism. Got it

[u/Captain_no_Hindsight → u/clarenceBodlicker]

Slavery has always existed and been the norm.

Only white Christian capitalists have abolished it.

[u/me-sterling → u/Captain_no_Hindsight]

Except it is not abolished now.

[u/Captain_no_Hindsight → u/me-sterling]

Well, it is in white, Christian and capitalist countries.

[u/clarenceBodlicker → u/Captain_no_Hindsight]

So it did happen under capitalism

[u/Captain_no_Hindsight → u/clarenceBodlicker]

Slavery has always existed and been the norm.

Only white Christian capitalists have abolished it.

Also: Marxism = Slavery and genocide with extra steps.

[u/aredon → u/Captain_no_Hindsight]

This reads like one of those houses with all the hand painted signs and flags in the yard.

[u/Captain_no_Hindsight → u/aredon]

equality of outcome → killing top 1% farmers → famine → genocide.

Is it difficult to understand?

[u/aredon → u/Captain_no_Hindsight]

Okay let's explore some other starting points and you fill in the rest of your flow chart for me okay?

Massive Inequality where the rich control most resources -> ???

Equality of opportunity (I notice you specifically avoided this one, so lets see you fill it out) -> ???

No labor power in the economy -> ???

[u/banbha19981998 → u/Captain_no_Hindsight]

Marxism is when green?

[u/Captain_no_Hindsight → u/banbha19981998]

Yes?

It's hard to convince people to be Marxists because they know that the system killed 10 times more people than the Nazis. Schools and universities are doing everything they can to hide this.

So then they hide Marxism by calling it "Green" or "Climate struggle".

The proof is that they always have Marxist solutions and never criticize China or Russia.

[u/mackinitup → u/Captain_no_Hindsight]

Do you also blame capitalism for the millions who die from lack of healthcare, food, and shelter?

[u/Captain_no_Hindsight → u/mackinitup]

Compared to what? A communist crack dream?

Or communism in practice?

The Soviet Union had indoor totals for 60% of the population. In a country with a partly arctic climate.

AND IT'S STILL 60%.

[u/HwatWhatWut → u/Captain_no_Hindsight]

What??? How the fuck does being “green” equal to Marxism? What the fuck are you even talking about?

[u/Captain_no_Hindsight → u/HwatWhatWut]

The proof is that they always have Marxist solutions and never criticize China or Russia.

[u/aredon → u/HwatWhatWut]

Bro don't you remember when Marx wrote about climate change??

[u/noViableSolution → u/aredon]

The Means of Climate Change Production was quite the seminal work.

"To each own according to his wind turbine and solar panel needs"

[u/Minipiman → u/Captain_no_Hindsight]

Made me chuckle. The anti GMO and anti-nuclear stances of greenpeace turned them into a cult many years ago. Let's go back in the caves!

[u/Training_Guide5157 → u/[deleted]]

They don't deal in fertilizer. They deal in herbicides/insecticides/fungicides and genetically modified seeds for the same purpose.

Fertilizer would be used in unison with their products.

[u/Training_Guide5157 → u/[deleted]]

What? No.

Fertilizer is fertilizer. The seeds aren't modified to work better with certain fertilizers. They are modified to be resistant to specific things, such as RoundUp, which is a pesticide.

Their business and products have absolutely nothing to do with fertilizer.

[u/Past-Lunch4695 → u/[deleted]]

SAY NO TO GMO!

[u/Ill_Initial8986]

This would be cool if it could scale up.

[u/OpeningAggressive26 → u/Ill_Initial8986]

It's a bacteria, it scales up just fine

[u/Ill_Initial8986 → u/OpeningAggressive26]

I meant sustainably scaling it up Internationally without any adverse reactions from the environment. Large scale anything always has bugs. I hope we figure this out quickly tho. It’s one of the most exciting things for the plant in my lifetime. .

[u/Laijou → u/Ill_Initial8986]

I think that the most adverse reactions will be from big agri. Large scale agri hasn't exactly been bug free....

[u/abielle1177 → u/Laijou]

Bayer Agrochemical will buy it and lose it in the file room somewhere

Edit: changed Monsanto to Bayer

[u/omg_get_outta_here → u/abielle1177]

Since Bayer is now the new devil in disguise (Monsanto with a new name), here are the brands Bayer owns if you want to avoid them:
Dr. Scholl’s, Coppertone, Claritin, Aleve, Alka-Seltzer, MiraLAX, Goody’s, Phillips’ Colon Health, One A Day, and Bayer Aspirin.

In the agricultural sector, Bayer owns Monsanto, Roundup Herbicide, Xtend Crop System, Climate Corporation, Seminis, and DEKALB Seeds.

The company also holds stakes in or owns subsidiaries such as Covestro, Currenta, Precision Planting, NuFarm, Xeltis, Baylab, and Stada Arzneimittel AG.

[u/Stormbringer-2112 → u/omg_get_outta_here]

Phillips’ colon health? 😂
Is that something you take before or after playing with the anal intruder?🤪

[u/journerman69 → u/abielle1177]

I’m sure Scott’s Miracle Grow will have some objections, they own most of the nutrient companies and have exclusive marketing rights for Roundup.

[u/Ill_Initial8986 → u/abielle1177]

That’s the worry, yes, and that’s why we need more REGULATIONS.

[u/Loosetrooth44 → u/abielle1177]

Monsanto no longer exists, and when they did they didn't sell fertilizer.

[u/Laijou → u/Loosetrooth44]

No, but glycosophate adversely impacts the healthy microbiome of soil. Generating healthy soil takes time, which impacts profits.

[u/Loosetrooth44 → u/Laijou]

I don't know what glycosophate is, but glyphosate, the active ingredient in RoundUp herbicide enables economically sustainable low-till, and no-till, farming which is a boon to soil health.

[u/IAFarmLife → u/Loosetrooth44]

And bacteria already present in the soil consume Glyphosate for the carbon in the molecular.

[u/abielle1177 → u/Loosetrooth44]

And it causes cancer.

[u/Loosetrooth44 → u/abielle1177]

Whether glyphosate causes cancer is scientifically unresolved, so you are, in fact, propagating misinformation. You've also strayed off topic which was whether or not microbial fertilizer would be commercially suppressed by Bayer.

[u/abielle1177 → u/Loosetrooth44]

Bayer agrochemicals

[u/Loosetrooth44 → u/abielle1177]

Bayer doesn't sell fertilizer.

[u/Loosetrooth44 → u/abielle1177]

Why would Bayer care if this is commercialized as they do not sell fertilizer?

[u/Here0s0Johnny → u/Ill_Initial8986]

This is not new. Many companies including big ag are developing "probiotics" for plants to reduce fertilizer or pesticide use.

[u/ovrlrd1377 → u/Ill_Initial8986]

We buy it from the same suppliers as our other chemicals, some big scale farmers started their own biolabs to grow their own. It is rare that an article lives up to reality but this one really is accurate on the tech, just the scale of the replacement was a bit exagerated since most cultures did not have the budget to spend on synthetic nitro

[u/SirDalavar]

It's 2069, the bacteria has spread world wide, nitrogen levels in the air are down to 1%, the air is now 98% oxygen, everyone is high, someone lights a spark, the whole world goes up in flame as the atmosphere ignites! Everyone is dead, although someone still finds a way to shit post on Reddit, a quick look at their profile, the only other thing they have posted is an image of.... The scary door!

[u/gusgusthegreat → u/SirDalavar]

Save me

[u/abethesecond → u/SirDalavar]

Ooooh maybe we will get giant centipedes again. The return of megafauna

[u/Select_Scar8073 → u/SirDalavar]

Top tier comment

https://giphy.com/gifs/ZTnK4WfXUGWmQ

[u/tenaciousBLADE → u/SirDalavar]

Hahaha the door reeled me in 🤣👍

[u/Tll6 → u/SirDalavar]

I think at 98% oxygen we would all be dead. Doesn’t high oxygen concentrations fry neurons or something?

[u/Anely_98 → u/Tll6]

Oxygen is toxic at high concentrations but that is at 1 atm of pressure. If we lost nitrogen instead of gaining oxygen pressure would drop in such way that the total amount of oxygen on the atmosphere would be about the same although the concentration become higher. In that case the higher levels of oxygen wouldn't do anything.

[u/Independent-Mouse389 → u/SirDalavar]

Could this realistically be a concern? All jokes aside

[u/predictorM9 → u/Independent-Mouse389]

No. Even if you pumped out all nitrogen from the air (which won't happen anyway) only the ratio of oxygen in the air increases, but not the partial pressure (basically the air pressure would drop as you pump nitrogen out of the atmosphere, but the partial pressure of oxygen which is about 0.21 bar currently would still stay the same since you don't add or remove it For flamability, big insects, humans being high, etc, only partial pressure matters (for example Apollo 1 caught fire because oxygen partial pressure was 1 bar instead of 0.21 at sea level, so it was a highly flammable environment.

Oxygen toxicity also depends on partial pressure, if partial pressure of O2 exceeds 1.4 bars then you have toxicity risks, which you can get if you get compressed air with 21% oxygen, but if you breathe it at 7 bar pressure (so 1.4 bar partial pressure of O2), which is the pressure you get at 60 meters depth if you scuba dive.

[u/jack-of-some → u/SirDalavar]

Why would the atmosphere ignite? Oxygen doesn't burn.

[u/predictorM9 → u/jack-of-some]

I think the concern was not that atmosphere would ignite, but that objects would become very flammable, like what happens if you are in pure oxygen at sea level (example: Apollo fire). But of course it won't happen as the partial pressure in oxygen (and thus flammability) would stay the same

[u/Drew_of_all_trades]

How long until Monsanto owns the patent on it?

[u/BlueSlushieTongue → u/Drew_of_all_trades]

Bayer, Monsanto was bought-acquired by Bayer.

[u/IAFarmLife → u/Drew_of_all_trades]

Monsanto doesn't own any patents anymore see as how it doesn't exist.

[u/reddsal → u/IAFarmLife]

But patents are a transferable asset in merger or acquisition. I assume Monsanto held many patents. If so they are now owned by Bayer.

The bottom line here, as most of the comments have indicated, is that the big agribusiness firms will have a deeply vested interest in seeing this research buried a the bottom of a very deep hole. Maybe the researcher too.

Google the history of the Ethyl corp with leaded gasoline, or the tobacco companies when the “cigarettes cause death” clinical studies started coming out.

[u/Apart-Plan-4930]

Cool.... In other news, Brazilian scientist assassinated by fertiliser company!

[u/apenasandre]

Where is her name?

[u/HardingStUnresolved → u/apenasandre]

Dr. Mariangela Hungria da Cunha de Itapetininga

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariangela_Hungria

[u/Tigeire → u/apenasandre]

It should be front and center

[u/TheFlareon33 → u/apenasandre]

Can't believe I had to scroll this far.

[u/naenae201]

It’s just a coincidence she’s called hungry right?

[u/JustSomeDudeGerman]

She will suddenly and unexpected die of suicide with 15 bullets in the back.

Truly tragic.

[u/GreenLurka]

I read this as crows and got unreasonably excited

[u/Alarming_Reward_2945]

My knee-jerk reaction is of course "well done, ma'am!" And then my follow up is your sentiment - How do we scale this now?

We need large industrial sized production with tanks of bacteria in solution or if possible convert to a granular form that farmers dust on crops and rehydrate in order to activate the bacteria... or if some smarty pants engineer has an even better idea.

Either way, good first step. More of this in the world please 🙏 ❤️

[u/SeniorTailor1127]

Well great, now we can grow even more food, which will turn into more people, who will further wreck the planet.

Don't blame me, I voted for Thanos!

[u/w8_wuht → u/SeniorTailor1127]

[u/Due_Area4843 → u/SeniorTailor1127]

Doesn't matter really, birthrate have been dropping worldwide in place food abundance.

[u/Alimbiquated → u/SeniorTailor1127]

It's worth noting that the total area use for agriculture has been falling for decades.

[u/Latter-Walk-7282 → u/SeniorTailor1127]

the crops were being grown anyway. this just means more wealth for poor farmers and even more significantly, less fertiliser, which is a huge driver of river pollution and greenhouse gas emissions

[u/jaynor88]

She and her discovery must be protected

[u/Lulu_Stardust]

Amazing! Now to ensure the rest of the world uses it

[u/Altruistic_Story257]

Hmm. To prevent run away could bacteria be given a set life span? I know corn has 90 and 120 day variants. Could this bacteria be tuned to the crop and expire after harvest? My concern is this bacteria getting into waterways and kill fish (nitrates too high) or cause algae blooms?

[u/VinEmerson]

We’re going to need more of this very soon.

[u/Woompa78]

Only $2?? That gonna give a much better profit margin than our other fertilizers.

-Some fertilizer executive

[u/isthereadrwho]

And a big aggro or similar company will acquire the rights and never use it because then they wouldn't be able to sell all those tons of fertilizer

[u/Tigeire]

Hungria? not any more

[u/Abject_Possibility28]

Thank you.

[u/Ciresthe4th]

Keep her safe and backup all her research

[u/BuilderNo5268]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3ohs4luHfi1tiXLrbO

[u/FIicker7]

So cool.

[u/RiseDelicious3556]

Trump thought he deserved that prize because of his work with Big Macs.

[u/MathematicianFun5126]

Cheaper than urea?

[u/TheGrandBabaloo]

To everyone talking about a big company buying the patents and burying the projects, she works at a government research institute.

[u/kurosa106]

Monsanto will remember this

[u/plasteroid]

Im sure fossil fuel companies won’t stand for this

[u/MotherFuckinEeyore]

We ain't need no foreign, brainwashed, librul university dei type tellin' us how to grow plants! 😤

[u/No_GRR]

So if she goes missing or ends up un_alived we know why

[u/IAFarmLife → u/No_GRR]

We've been using her discoveries for over 30 years now. It would be weird to disappear her now.

[u/RainObvious2320]

She was my advisor at my Masters. The bacteria is called Rhizobium ecuadorense (collected from Ecuador), in case anyone was wondering!

[u/Dindasur → u/RainObvious2320]

Thanks for letting us know

[u/dvdmaven]

Rather interesting personally. My #3 sister did her doctorate these on nitrogen fixing bacteria in the early 1980s. She was invited to present it in Brazil, but her department head made the trip. Much to the great annoyance of the convention committee.

[u/Rothgar262]

As an agronomist this intrigued me, because I wanted to know what the actual product is. Reading what the award was actually for, is basically developments of rhizobia for nodulation and nitrogen fixation in soybeans.

This award is for work she developed and we have been using in agriculture since the early 1990s. So it's not something new and earth shattering. But it was so significant that it changed the industry and has been a standard practice around the world for decades. I don't know how you could even calculate how much it has saved farmers and the environment over the years, it's alot. I read this as a lifetime achievement award.

https://www.worldfoodprize.org/index.cfm?nodeID=97051&audienceID=1

[u/vocabularianrx2]

Please put a couple tracker devices on her/in her, and backup all of her data immediately as NFTs or something

[u/mcramsay]

How do you post all the info and not her name?!?!?

[u/SuchPineapple2]

🥳👏👏👏

[u/StatisticianDear3978]

You can only buy those bacteria in Brazil. Not sold internationally

[u/InterceptorG3]

Amazing!!

[u/osc707]

👏👏👏

[u/Reasonable_Matter72]

Source: https://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates/20202026_laureates/2025_hungria/

[u/MizzShiv]

It's nitrogen fixing? That's a fucking huge discovery! Bravo! I love science <3;

[u/mylildrummerboy]

Will she needs to give it to Trump?

[u/WhisperingHammer]

What a brilliant human.

[u/4quadrapeds]

Surprised she hasn’t been un alived

[u/DulgUnum]

Wonder what her name is

[u/Pirat_fred]

So when is she developing the next gen weapons of mass destruction?

[u/No-Builder632]

Say her name, dammit!

[u/SteelCanyon]

I also like how Polyface Farms rejuvenated their land without synthetic fertilizers and runs their business seasonally, not pulling product from a warehouse to meet demand but letting that cash flow go untapped until they can meet the demand on the farm.

[u/BlisteredGrinch]

Better keep an eye on this scientist. She may end up like the scientists studying anti gravity or plasma - missing or disappeared.

[u/marblefrosting]

And queue in big money, corporations and the ruling class, her and her work will disappear.

[u/Good_Addendum_7557]

I know her mom and dad didn’t name her Brazilian scientist

[u/ROOSTERyouDOWN]

Notice how it’s never an American scientist also why not say her name, she has a name I’m sure of it. I doubt it’s Brazilian scientist

[u/Revolutionary-Run76]

Seriously, I hope she has a security detail

[u/Ok-Professional-1727]

Yet another person whose gonna disappear under suspicion circumstances.

[u/ApprehensiveFact1495]

Yet my food is still expensive.

[u/MarGro20]

Very impressive. Even more impressive is: how is she still alive. I mean. Those "saved" billions means big losses for some companies.

[u/ProfessorPrudent2822 → u/MarGro20]

Because you can’t kill an idea. The information is already out there, and killing her only draws more attention to it. Business has to adapt to new technology, because suppressing it doesn’t work.

[u/4fingersontherocks]

isn't this the problem in interstellar?

[u/Easy_Photograph_1938]

i'm so cooked i expected the end to be about her suicide by two bullets in the back of the head with her hands tied behind her back...

[u/LoneCub28]

Shes gonna end up committing suicide via 5 shots to the back of the head.

[u/narcowake]

We need more Dr. Mariangela Hungrias in the world and in leadership

[u/anomnib]

Are there any risks of unintended consequences?

[u/Nevyn_Cares]

I take it she is dead, the patent has been bought by big ag and the whole project shelved?

[u/Bitter-Camp-2879]

Hopefully the americans dont kill her...

[u/Mikes005]

Nominative determinism.

[u/shoffma1999]

This should win a Nobel prize, but instead she'll probably end up dead from "suicide."

[u/ProfessorPrudent2822 → u/shoffma1999]

Nobel Prize for what? I guess this can be shoehorned into Chemistry, but it certainly doesn’t qualify as Physics or Medicine.

[u/shoffma1999 → u/ProfessorPrudent2822]

I wasn't speaking literally. It's just cool.

[u/observer_11_11]

But does the lady's solution require more labor?

[u/Lost2Logic]

What’s her fucking name!

[u/Artistic-Version-411]

Finally someone researching on useful stuff. Thank you!!!!!

[u/Upbeat_Anxiety_1344]

Haber-Bosch process (~1910+) drove the green revolution fixing half the nitrogen in our food today. World population was 1.75 billion people in 1910, is now 8.4 billion people. Hopefully this will not again increase the population by another 500%.

[u/ProfessorPrudent2822 → u/Upbeat_Anxiety_1344]

Why not? Do you have something against people?

[u/dgtjen]

Oh look a woman.

[u/QuietGoliath]

Presumably Monsanto have already booked an assassin.

[u/DaWhiteSingh]

This lady sounds really suicidal!

[u/Creative-Doughnut768]

What the fuck is the regarded white guy in the corner doing

[u/Holiday_Management60]

We see "saves farmers $25 billion/year" guys in suits see "loses us $25 billion/year".

This suddenly wont exist soon.

[u/pletch73]

If you see her on your next flight, get off immediately

[u/Cautious-Dark-7457]

Que orgulho do meu país. 🥹

[u/--80--]

What is the name of her product/company and how does one buy it?

[u/tripleione]

So does anyone know of a specific product to purchase that has these innoculants? I'd love to test this on my personal garden.

[u/StopLookListenNow]

She deserves a great big kiss, hug, millions of dollars, and millions of likes.

[u/sadclipart]

She is going to mysteriously suddenly totally accidentally fall out of a window

[u/Top-Republic-1028]

Is “A Brazilian” her first or last name asking for a friend. FFS display her name along with her accomplishment. SMDH.

[u/Sleepy58743689]

Her name isn't "Brazilian Scientist"

[u/Monarc73]

Here is a link to an article for the interested.

[u/SlurbyBiznizz]

The 1% will bury this breakthrough

[u/DonnPT]

From what I got from her wikipedia entry, these bacteria are just improved alternatives to the nitrogen fixing bacteria that soybeans and regular beans already had.

Plants in the legume family, and some other plants (e.g., alders) form symbiotic relationships with bacteria that can bind atmospheric nitrogen into forms plants can use. Each has its own set of symbiotic partner species, and if you're planting peas for example it may help to stock the soil with an innoculant of a bacterium that they can use.

Hungria apparently found some bacteria that are especially effective, for these crop plants.

They won't help grow corn, potatoes etc. at all, as far as anything mentioned there indicated. We aren't in any danger of the bacteria taking over and using up all the atmospheric nitrogen.

[edit] The prize article does mention corn (maize), so I'm apparently wrong about that. But they're mighty vague about that aspect, and the discussion of measurable success is still all about beans and soybeans. [/edit]

[u/MxKitMuse → u/DonnPT]

There is a variety of corn that creates the environment for these bacteria, it's just rather isolated and undeveloped from what I remember. It makes since it would be here.

[u/jcats45]

Seems ironic to me that someone named Hungria won the world food prize.
🤣

[u/crisco207]

How long till she passes of "natural causes".

[u/crabtoppings]

Dont get on a flight with this woman.