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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

Mars looks familiar in telescope images, but its thin air, deep cold and radiation soaked surface would kill an unprotected ...

Amending your soil can help your garden bounce back from a cold winter. From adjusting the pH to improving the drainage, here ...