Noah Abrahams

But the idea is it will coat the urea and then break down quite slowly in the soil.

Sort of like slow release medicine almost.

Oh, okay.

It has that coating so that it just breaks down slower.

And that was one of my biggest concerns, is how do we make sure that something we're adding isn't creating further problems?

One of the complications is that soil is such a complex matrix.

What microbes are present?

How do they interact with the soil present, with other microbes present?

So a lot of the research is in this research and development stage where we create a material.

Theoretically, it should work in a certain way, but when you put it in the soil, there's a lot of unknowns around how it interacts.

And that's even just like any soil, let alone the variety of soils that we deal with around the world.

Yeah.

Yes, and even the crop that it's being used for.

So the other part is creating a compound that we can put inside this granule with the urea.

So what I was looking at was creating enzyme inhibitors that are basically designed to interact with the urease enzyme that is already in the soil and slow down its processes.

Yes.

So they are already used, which is really great.

The most common one is called NBPT, which is... Great name.

It's a great name.

It's a great acronym for its chemical name, which is N-N-butylthiophosphoric triamide.