Researchers have discovered that beneficial soil bacteria give plants an unexpected survival advantage in salty soils. Instead of helping plants keep salt out, the microbes stimulate the production of ...

A single gram of soil contains between 10 million and 1 billion viruses. Most of those viruses do not infect plants, animals ...

Too much fertilizer disrupts the hidden world of soil-dwelling microbes that were sustaining healthy crops long before ...

We share the world with myriad creatures from microbes to plants, and it’s been said that we are all connected. In recent years, scientists have shown just how much of an impact microbes can have on ...

Multiomics approaches for understanding of the dynamic mechanisms of soil holobiont in mitigating salinity stress in plant hosts. PGPR = plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria; AMF = arbuscular ...

Rows of gray plastic film stretch across a field of soil. Leafy green strawberry plants poke out of holes in the top of the film. Agricultural plastics, such as this mulch film covering strawberry ...

Researchers at the University of East Anglia have helped uncover a hidden ally in the fight against one of agriculture’s greatest threats - salty soil. Led by Chinese collaborator Dr Yanfen Zheng, a ...

Scientists find Arctic microbes swap DNA far more often than expected, offering new clues about climate change and carbon storage.

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 ...