Too much fertilizer disrupts the hidden world of soil-dwelling microbes that were sustaining healthy crops long before ...
In paddy field, flood-and-drain cycles produce variations in reduced and oxidized environments, which are appropriate habitats for a wide variety of microorganisms. Nitrogen (N) fertilization drives ...
Amid global concern over rising fertilizer costs, supply chain fragility, and environmental impact, Switch Bioworks advances field trials of a new generation of fertilizer produced by living microbes ...
A single gram of soil contains between 10 million and 1 billion viruses. Most of those viruses do not infect plants, animals ...
Growing up on a family farm near Sterling, Colo., Zach Karg witnessed firsthand the challenges facing today’s farmers. Now, ...
Rice water can also improve long-term plant health by increasing the growth of beneficial microorganisms that break down nutrients and make them available to plants. In other words, consistent use of ...
Lynette Abbott and Pankaj Singh from the University of Western Australia highlight relationships between herbicides and soil ...