Fertilizers carry a hidden cost for soil’s crucial microbes – using less as prices rise might pay off for farmers in ...

Across North America, in places such as Illinois, Iowa and Texas, farmers are busy growing the crops the world depends on for ...

Across North America, in places such as Illinois, Iowa and Texas, farmers are busy growing the crops the world depends on for ...

When people begin gardening, they usually focus on sunlight and watering. While these are essential for plant survival, another factor quietly determi ...

The world's longest-running soil warming experiment has revealed an unexpected climate concern. After nearly four decades, ...

Mathematicians have solved a physics puzzle using backyard sprinklers. Experiments with silly sprinklers clarified how ...

This is where conservation-focused farming methods, including no-till farming, come in. Conventional farming involves sowing ...

A new study tracking soil microbial communities across six years of experimental drought in a tallgrass prairie finds that ...

Somewhere under a patch of ordinary garden soil, billions of bacteria are quietly going about their business eating organic matter, releasing electrons, and in doing so, producing a faint but constant ...

All of the enzymes required for a microorganism to synthesize a natural product are encoded by a self-contained, continuous genetic unit known as a biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC) 9. The diversity of ...

One simple gardening tool can improve compacted soil without relying on heavy equipment that may do more harm than good ...

Tulane University researchers and the recycling facility Glass Half Full are using evolutionary relationships between ...