A recent study has identified PhSLB1 as a crucial regulator of branch development in petunia (Petunia hybrida), offering ...

Most people probably don't think about soil as a living thing. But it is filled with millions of tiny organisms that play a ...

Thuringia is funding a new research group at the Leibniz-HKI that is investigating the moss microbiome The Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute ...

An international team including engineers from Princeton has devised a way to watch, in stunning detail, as the hollow ...

Interventions involving bacteria or fungi could help to sequester greenhouse gases, create more sustainable products and ...

A recent study published in Soil Ecology Letters has elucidated the combined effects of soil amendments and pest attacks on plant-induced defence mechanisms ... and its consequence on the tri-trophic ...

While many technologies based on metal-microbe interactions have been applied on an industrial scale (examples above), improved and novel biotechnologies are being developed and/or scaled-up (such as ...

Microbial communities in agroecosystems play a crucial role in maintaining soil health and suppressing plant diseases. They are involved in nutrient ...