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 ...

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 ...

Figure 1 Phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) profiles of A) Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, B) gran-positive, C) gran-negative bacteria, and D) actinobacteria in soil macroaggregates (MACRO) and soil ...

Figure 1.The map shows the positions of the study sites within the chosen region. Each marker indicates where samples were collected for microbiological analysis, covering a range of environmental ...

It also seems like it is an insect transmitted bacteria, so the study that Nick sent along really focuses on structures that allow this pathogen to move around in the phloem and to take up the DNA, ...

As the dominant strains of soil bacteria (Delgado-Baquerizo et al., 2018), the bacterial phyla Actinobacteriota, Proteobacteria, Acidobacteriota, Chloroflexi, and Firmicutes were the top five ...