Nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria (such as Rhizobium and Bradyrhizobium) convert atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia, which is taken up by plants as ammonium ions. Peas, beans and other leguminous plants ...

Two people have died from the deadly soil-borne bacterial disease melioidosis in Far North Queensland during the region's ...

One teaspoon of bare or tilled soil contains more microorganisms than there are people on Earth, however, the rhizosphere can have 1000-2000 times that number (10 10-10 12 cells per gram ...

From discovering plastic-eating bacteria to finding a new catalytic process in soils, the Aristilde Research Group had a busy ...

Eukaryotic microorganisms, or protists, are essential ecological agents that populate various environments like aquatic and ...

Gene-Edited Soil Bacteria Could Provide Third Source of Nitrogen for Corn Production Jan. 16, 2025 — If corn was ever jealous of soybean's relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria ...

A sugar produced by soil bacteria may be able to stop the loss of skin pigment caused by vitiligo.  | A sugar produced by ...

The 2021 peer-reviewed study Pesticides and Soil Invertebrates: A Hazard Assessment shows that pesticides widely used in American agriculture pose a grave threat to organisms needed for healthy soil, ...

Sible and his co-authors tested products from Pivot Bio called PROVEN and PROVEN 40, which includes one or two species of soil bacteria, respectively, that can turn atmospheric nitrogen into plant ...