Industrial farming practices often deplete the soil of important nutrients and minerals, leaving farmers to rely on artificial fertilizers to support plant growth. In fact, fertilizer use has more ...

Since time immemorial, plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have coexisted in a mutually beneficial relationship. The fungi colonize plant roots and help them absorb nutrients. In return, plants ...

A study on medicinal plants published in Cell highlights the symbiotic relationship between humans and plant species, particularly in the context of medicine. This relationship, which spans millennia, ...

Clover plants grown in Mars-like soils experience significantly more growth when inoculated with symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria than when left uninoculated. Franklin Harris of Colorado State ...

Aphids, as globally pervasive agricultural pests, have evolved intricate relationships with microbial symbionts that critically influence their interactions with host plants. These symbioses—often ...

Plants and microbes often have a symbiotic relationship, relying on each other for nutrients or shelter. Understanding and engineering such symbioses is an essential step in the journey toward ...

Transactions amongst microorganisms and plant in the composite rhizosphere habitat / Saksi Tewari and Naveen Kumar Arora -- Plant-microbe interactions for sustainable agriculture: fundamentals and ...

With small changes to cellular machinery, researchers may have begun to transform the relationship between plants and the soil. Their new work could help to develop crops that can collaborate with ...

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