A new study from Caltech demonstrates that soil bacteria can adapt under stress, particularly when a key nutrient, phosphorus ...
Research has revealed how bacteria rely on circadian clocks to control the spread of their multicellular colonies. The ...
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 ...
Beneficial soil bacteria help crops survive salty soils by strengthening their roots - a new way to protect farmland from rising salinity.
As the planet has warmed, scientists have long been concerned about the potential for harmful greenhouse gasses to seep out of thawing Arctic permafrost. Recent estimates suggest that by 2100 the ...
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A teaspoon of soil holds more living microbes than there are people on Earth
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.
Soils host highly diverse microbial communities that regulate nutrient cycling, carbon storage, and ecosystem resilience, yet the mechanisms linking microbial diversity to function remain incompletely ...
Soil bacteria make cocktails of molecules that synergistically inhibit the growth of microbial pathogens — suggesting a ...
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 ...
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