tl;dw: There is a type of maize in Latin America that can self fertilize and nitrogen fix itself. Though a lot of this is popsci nonsense, they have been hybridizing it to a lot of success
tl;dw: There is a type of maize in Latin America that can self fertilize and nitrogen fix itself. Though a lot of this is popsci nonsense, they have been hybridizing it to a lot of success
If anything I could see it intensifying the problem. Normally nitrogen is refixed to the soil though crop rotation to legumes or green manure. That's at least some kind of variation of habitat and nutrients available to wildlife, some kind of period where corn pathogens in the soil have no plants to infect, some kind of non-corn additive to the soils, and the potential of more produce diversity for consumers. I don't like the idea of corn growing consecutively or across the whole area at once.