Pulling Fertilizer Out Of Thin Air | Bayer

Imagine being told something doesn't exist, then stumbling across it in nature. During a research trip to the Oaxaca Valley in Mexico in 1980, plant scientist Howard-Yana Shapiro observed a strain of corn twice as tall as any he'd ever seen. Puzzled by how it could grow so tall in a place without access to modern agricultural conveniences, the man who tended the fields told him, "There's no fertilizer in this community." What Howard observed changed everything. Meet Howard and Jason Kelly, co-founder and CEO of Ginkgo Bioworks, in the first of a three-part docuseries that will explore how human ingenuity is the key to meeting the challenges posed by climate change.