soil bacterium

Real-world climate change experiment reveals surprising soil response

A new study examines the biology of the invisible world of soil microbes and how they might respond to global changes

Benzoxazinoids secreted from maize roots into the soil can improve the yield of future plants

Researchers have found that the warming climate is decreasing microbial diversity, which is essential for soil health

A few common bacteria use most of the carbon in soil

Researchers have developed a way to assess soil health by measuring the electric current produced by its tiniest microbes

Researchers detail the first-ever successful use of a technique called BONCAT to isolate active microbes present in a sample of soil

UMass Amherst and DOE Joint Genome Institute describe 16 new large-DNA virus species

Researchers have published the characterization of a new bioactive natural product whose derivatives could be used as antibiotics

UCR research will help agronomists breed plants that attract their own growth-promoting microbes