A rhizobium strain that can’t outcompete native soil populations can’t deliver benefit. Lilac improves both: nitrogen fixing efficiency and competitiveness to claim the nodule. It’s the gap Lilac was built to fix.
Farmers have seen seed performance transform through decades of genetic science. Inoculants have been left behind.
Plant breeders spent 50 years systematically improving what’s inside the seed: yield, stress tolerance, disease resistance. The result was a revolution in what a farmer could put in the ground.
The same science has not been applied to inoculants. Most products use rhizobium strains identified decades ago from a USDA collection, largely unchanged since. Lilac is changing that.
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