Farmers are always looking for smarter ways to boost crop health, and one of the industry's latest game-changers is ...

Episode 3In this episode hear:soil scientist Dr Susan Orgil explain the science of soil healthhow the microbial and chemical ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have successfully revived microscopic frozen organisms in Siberian permafrost for ...

WASHINGTON— A new study published today by the academic journal Frontiers in Environmental Science finds that pesticides widely used in American agriculture pose a grave threat to organisms that are ...

Farmers and agronomists are very aware that phosphorus (P) is an essential element needed for optimum crop production in ...

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, ...

This type of succession is often called primary succession, as the soil, as well as all characteristic organisms, needs to re-establish. Large, low intensity disturbances, such as plowing in ...

Clark, F. E. Soil Micro-organisms and Plant Roots (1949). Danhorn T, Fuqua C. Biofilm formation by plant-associated bacteria. ANNUAL REVIEW OF MICROBIOLOGY. 61: 401-422 ( 2007) Dinneny JR ...

If all the organisms were to disappear from any one of the cubic spaces depicted in these photographs, the environment in it would soon shift to a radical new state. The molecules of the soil or ...

In natural ecosystems such as forests, organisms recycle last years leaf litter into the soil for release of nutrients. With no-till planting we may also depend more on earthworms and other soil ...