They found that farming coffee as a monoculture alters the soil microbiome in both community composition and species diversity. But not all shade-grown coffee farms were the same. The soil ...

By not tilling the soil and disrupting the world of the soil microbiome, organisms are able to do their job of capturing ...

A previously unknown protein in a family of bacteria found in soil and the human gut microbiome has been discovered—which ...

Nearly 600 soil samples from New York City’s famous park reveal that the urban environment harbors just as much biodiversity as natural ecosystems across the globe. Jef Akst was managing editor of The ...

a microbiome of the soil, or a microbiome of a body of water. Indoor spaces like homes, offices and hospitals also have distinct microbiomes, as do all the surfaces and objects within. And most ...

With this metatranscriptomics approach, they were able to study a wide variety of the organisms found in the soil microbiome simultaneously, comparing which genes were expressed differently when the ...

Ascribe Bio says it has developed a biopesticide for rice that increases yields by up to two tons per hectare, according to ...

For a plant, life in Argentina’s Monte Desert is hard enough. Daily temperatures can fluctuate dramatically; it rarely rains, and there are few nutrients in the parched soil for a hungry plant. To add ...

The Department of Biosciences at Durham University seeks to appoint a talented individual to the role of Assistant Professor with expertise in Plant-Soil microbiome interactions to join the SMART ...