One can make a plant which has the right trait which somebody has created or observed and put it into the plant, and make it stably inherited when it is grown in the in the soil. Subhra ...

"Urbanization is a powerful force reshaping soil microbial communities, yet bacteria and fungi respond in strikingly different ways," said Dr. Nan Hui, the study's corresponding author.

Since time immemorial, plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have coexisted in a mutually beneficial relationship. The fungi colonize plant roots and help them absorb nutrients. In return, plants ...

Bacteria play key roles in degrading organic matter, both in the soil and in aquatic ecosystems. While most bacteria digest large molecules externally, allowing other community members to share and ...

“It’s a big leap forward for us.” Produced by a bacteria called Paenibacillus, lariocidin was initially retrieved from a soil sample collected in a backyard. Wright and team grew the soil bacteria for ...

Despite these divergent responses, the functional overlap between bacteria and fungi ensures ecosystem resilience, allowing essential processes like nutrient cycling to persist even in highly ...

Engineers have made bacteria to produce hyperspectral signals that can be detected as far as 90 meters away. Their work could lead to the development of bacterial sensors for agricultural and other ...

Anthrax, a severe illness most commonly caused by soil-dwelling bacteria, can infect wild animals when they breathe in spores present in contaminated dirt, plants, or water. Park rangers first ...

Gerry Wright, a biochemist at McMaster University who led the research, says lariocidin was found in a bacteria called Paenibacillus that was “cultivated from a soil sample that we obtained here ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Bacteria can be engineered to sense a variety of molecules, such as pollutants or soil nutrients. In most cases, however, these signals can only be detected by looking at the ...