rhizosphere-microbiome

Mountain meadows and wildflower-rich grasslands many people hike through and depend on for clean ...

Oak and beech trees in your local park or forest are quietly cooperating underground, and underst...

A simple, one-time soil treatment could let home gardeners and farmers grow significantly more to...

If you add biochar to your garden or raised beds, you could more than double the helpful fungi th...

Understanding how plants 'listen' to helpful fungi could soon lead to crops that need fewer pesti...

Apple orchards worldwide are quietly being poisoned by their own soil after replanting, and this ...

A naturally occurring soil fungus could replace or reduce fungicides on the alfalfa fields that f...

The caterpillars or aphids chewing on your tomatoes and roses are secretly rewiring the microbial...

Bacteria living around your garden plants' roots aren't always on your side — some can quietly st...

If you grow citrus in containers or garden beds, the invisible community of bacteria clinging to ...

If you're planting a food forest or hedgerow, the herbs and perennials you tuck between your tree...

Understanding how plant roots 'talk' to soil microbes could lead to farming practices that grow m...

The fertilizer you choose for your garden doesn't just feed your plants directly — it quietly sha...

Heavy metals from mining and industry contaminate soils worldwide, and this naturally-occurring b...

Contaminated soil near industrial areas, old farms, and urban parks can silently poison the food ...

Invisible communities of microbes living in your garden soil and on plant roots are increasingly ...

Understanding what invites beneficial soil bacteria to plant roots could help gardeners and farme...

Manure-amended vegetable beds may carry invisible antibiotic residues that quietly suppress your ...

Soil bacteria you can barely see are already doing quiet cleanup work around every plant's roots,...

Contaminated soil from industrial runoff or heavy metals can end up in the vegetables you grow or...

It points toward a natural, fungi-based alternative to chemical pesticides and fertilizers for ol...

Wastewater from hospitals and imaging centers carries gadolinium into irrigation water sources, a...

These beneficial bacteria are already living in the soil of your garden and farm fields — underst...

Vegetables you eat may be grown in soils where nearby mining has quietly changed the underground ...

Tiny chemical signals in garden soil quietly recruit beneficial microbes to plant roots — underst...

Poplar trees planted along roadsides and in restored wetlands are quietly recruiting their own ba...

Farmers growing soybeans through increasingly brutal summer droughts may one day treat seeds with...

Same invisible soil bacteria that help your garden plants thrive can be knocked off balance by a ...

Poplar trees line city streets, buffer agricultural fields, and anchor riparian corridors across ...

Bacteria living in legume roots do the invisible work of turning air into plant food, potentially...

Choosing the right crop variety could be as powerful a tool as any amendment you add to degraded ...

Spices like cumin grown in contaminated soils near industrial or mining areas are absorbing heavy...

That weedy, orange-flowered plant carpeting the shady corners of urban parks and woodland edges m...

Invisible microbes living in your garden soil are what make your plants grow — and losing them to...

Invisible viral world living in garden and farm soils influences plant health, nutrient cycling, ...