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

If corn was ever jealous of soybean's relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, advancements in gene editing could one day level the playing field. A recent study from the University of Illinois ...

Did your soil struggle to support your corn or soybean crop last season? If so, you might be considering soil amendments this year. But where do you start? With the exception of fertilizer, almost ...

Soils do more than store carbon from plant residues. Beneath our feet, vast communities of microbes quietly pull carbon dioxide from the air and convert it into organic matter, helping regulate ...

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 ...

If the growth of corn and soybeans is not what you were expecting, look below the soil surface for answers. Our 2026 growing season has given us moisture and temperature conditions that have made ...

A Caltech-led study published in Nature Microbiology found that drought drives elevated antibiotic resistance across soils worldwide, with drier regions showing consistently higher frequencies of ...

Researchers discovered that microbes respire three times as much CO2 from lignin carbons compared to cellulose carbons. When soil microbes eat plant matter, the digested food follows one of two ...

Beneath every garden bed, farm field, and forest floor, a single teaspoon of soil teems with billions of microorganisms, a population that dwarfs the roughly eight billion humans alive on the planet.

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 ...