Ozone pollution is a global environmental concern that not only threatens human health and crop production, but also worsens ...

Kao-Kniffin’s most recent finding is that soil with a diverse microbial community promotes plant growth while soil with more homogeneous microbial makeup suppresses growth. Throughout most of ...

Traditional farming practices can undervalue soil health post-harvest, but regenerative approaches prioritize maintaining an active and diverse microbial community, even in the winter. As the ...

Imagine one of the driest places on Earth, where more complex life forms are barely present, yet a rich microbial world ...

The soil microbial community regulates many critical agroecosystems services including nutrient cycling, pathogen dynamics, and pollutant detoxification. Moreover, some soil microbes can form intimate ...

A review study (DOI: 10.15302/J-FASE-2024575) conducted by the research team led by Professor Jianbo Shen from China ...

A new study reveals that microbial diversity is shaped by a network of mutual dependencies. Microbial ecosystems are found all around us—in seawater, soil, and even inside the human gut—and they are ...

This resistance, the authors assert, can feed back to the ecosystem level when changes in the microbial community composition influence soil processes; they cite nitrogen and carbon flows as examples.

his lab grew wild bacteria cultured from dead leaves and soil around New Haven, Connecticut. They found that given the same set of environmental conditions — the same carbon sources, temperature, ...