Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to study plant microbiomes—communities of microbes living in and around plants—could help improve soil health, boost crop yields, and restore degraded ...

Soil microbes remain highly active beneath winter snow, driving complex nitrogen recycling that fuels spring plant growth.

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have identified a bacterial genus that promotes root growth and nitrogen uptake in plants. The findings open new possibilities for developing ...

Many plants have developed adaptations to environmental extremes such as drought and high salinity. Plant resilience can enhance the vast community of associated microorganisms, collectively known as ...

Future missions to the Moon could see astronauts growing the first plants on the lunar surface. But, getting lunar soil to grow plants has been a tricky process. Scientists may have finally had a ...

Your crop’s first line of defense lives on the leaf. PhycoTerra® FX feeds up to 10 million microbes/cm² with microalgae-powered nutrition. Feeding the beneficial native microbes in your phyllosphere ...

Suzanne Simard interview: How I uncovered the hidden language of trees Just as the bacteria that live in our guts can influence our health, the microbes that dwell in and around plant roots play a ...

AMES, Iowa – Smarter use of the microbes that live in and around crops could pay huge dividends for farmers in the near future, according to an Iowa State University microbiologist. Gwyn Beattie, a ...

Some 95% of microbes remain mysterious because they can’t be grown in the lab. Yet researchers are keen to study these organisms and the potentially useful compounds they make. Tiny, semipermeable ...