Salinity is a rising threat to global agriculture, severely limiting crop productivity and damaging soil health. New research reveals how the ...

Microplastics, tiny plastic particles increasingly found in agricultural soils, are raising alarms for their role in ...

Bacteria engineered to detect pollution or nutrients could help farmers monitor their fields.

In an advance for agriculture, a new study reveals how wheat plants actively influence the microbial communities living on ...

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

Drug-resistant fungus detected in compost, soil, and flower bulbs * Immunocompromised people face high fatality risk from ...

Phylogenetic surveys of soil ecosystems have shown that the number of prokaryotic species found in a single sample exceeds that of known cultured prokaryotes. Soil metagenomics, which comprises ...

It is no secret that the presence of humans has left visible scars on this planet. Be it edging out endangered species with ...

Researchers led by Dr. Xu Mingkai from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have identified a highly effective microbial consortium capable of fully degrading acetochlor ...