A research team has developed a bacterial partnership that reduces soil acidity and promotes lettuce growth by combining ...

A plant's roots do much of their work out of sight, pulling in water and nutrients and holding the plant in place. That makes it hard to see how plants respond when conditions underground change, and ...

Researchers from the Sydney Institute of Agriculture at the University of Sydney investigated the vast and largely hidden world beneath our feet. Soil is where 59% of all life on Earth resides. A ...

A study in Environmental Microbiome reveals that sparse vegetation on High-Arctic islands significantly restructures soil ...

A new opinion paper argues that microbiome functional diversity is the missing biological link between soil health and One ...

Across North America, in places such as Illinois, Iowa and Texas, farmers are busy growing the crops the world depends on for food, fuel and fiber. After an expensive spring, with the war in Iran ...

Microbes are an integral part of soil life and they are essential to allow soil to perform all of its functions, including ...

Newswise — In maize fields in Jilin Province, China, adding organic carbon sources on top of straw return increased soil organic carbon in the topsoil, while the subsoil showed a more complex response ...

Learn about a new phylum of microbes that lives in deep soil, a layer of the Earth that supports water cycling and nutrient cycling. The Earth beneath our feet teems with life invisible to the naked ...

Every grower wants bigger buds. Healthy plants. The kind of trichomes that glisten, with terpene and cannabinoid content that deliver the perfect full-spectrum high. That’s the goal, whether your ...

Soil bacteria in Antarctica are unique: 90 percent of the Arthrobacter strains found there turned up in no other soil sampled ...