A nationwide genetics project is exploring soil microbiodiversity, discovering new bacterial strains and microbes that ...

Producers spot healthy soil through diverse ground cover, beneficial insects, earthworms and lab tests measuring microbial ...

Learn how to make lactic acid bacteria to add beneficial microbial life to your garden Marco Thomas from Marco’s Microbes demonstrates how to make lactic acid bacteria from simple kitchen ingredients.

Globally, soils contain three times as much carbon as exists in the atmosphere and all plants, combined. Which means that understanding how soil microbes recycle organic materials—sometimes sending CO ...

The unique blend of fungi and bacteria in a region’s soil may be the strongest factor explaining its rates of childhood allergic disease, with certain assemblages of soil critters appearing linked ...

Image of soil with a close-up of a bacterium and the cellular pathways involved in carbon dioxide productions. Available substrates from soil organic matter are processed through specific pathways ...

It's an exciting time to be a microbiologist working in rice research. A global push towards the cultivation of water-saving ...

Researchers have launched a database highlighting microbes that support human health and ecosystem resilience.

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 ...

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping ...

New research explores how microbes could turn Martian soil into building material and support life systems, offering a potential path for constructing human habitats on Mars using local resources ...

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population, but the tiny microbes living on and around rice plants may be just as ...