"It is often claimed that the types of microbes found in soil should influence crop flavor," said Fierer, who's also a professor at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

The Hidden Majority: What Are Soil Microbes? Soil microbes are microscopic organisms that live in the soil, including bacteria, fungi, archaea, protozoa, and viruses.

As summer fully sets in it is a good time to assess how our gardens are growing. Consider what is growing well, and what is ...

This is a remarkable characteristic of desert soil bacteria, as in other types of soil many groups of bacteria take much longer to reactivate." When reactivated, the bacteria would quickly begin ...

Most people don’t think about it until it becomes a necessity or a problem, but dirt and soil are important parts of all of ...

Testing for this is difficult—past studies have surveyed plants grown in different locations and regions, making it tricky to isolate the role of microbes alone. “It is often claimed that the types of ...

With that fact in mind, scientists from Canada's University of British Columbia set about adding samples of a rock known as kimberlite to populations of various types of soil microbes.

Learn about a new phylum of microbes that lives in deep soil, a layer of the Earth that supports water cycling and nutrient cycling.

Climate models are essential to predicting and addressing climate change, but can fail to adequately represent soil microbes, a critical player in ecosystem soil carbon sequestration that affects ...

Given Australia's diverse landscapes, soils, and climates, the researchers sought to determine whether soil microbes occupy specific habitats shaped by their surrounding environment.