You're right. It's a really exciting world when it comes to what we can do with plants to make them be more productive and use nutrients more efficiently.
I'll give you an example. We've talked about using fertilizer most effectively. When we grow plants, we use nitrogen, which helps plants grow all of the green leaf and architecture required to make seeds that make oil and protein. When we look at nitrogen, traditionally we get that from nitrogen fertilizer. Some of the research is really exciting and would have a major impact on the amount of energy required to grow a crop. For example, instead of using that nitrogen, which is made in a factory, we would be using the bacteria around the root, the root microbiome, in order to take nitrogen from the air—which is about 78% of the air—and turn that into a form of nitrogen that the plant can use.
When we think about innovation, the plants and the technologies that we have in plant breeding and our ability to understand bacteria and how they can turn nitrogen from the air into nitrogen the plant can use, it's a really exciting time for plant agriculture. That's just one example.