To help farmers overcome these challenges, our lab studies soil microbial ecology and beneficial plant-microbial relationships. The soil microbial community regulates many critical agroecosystems ...

Photo by Gregory Urquiaga, UC Davis. Kate Scow, a professor of soil science and soil microbial ecology at UC Davis, keeps plastic bags filled with soil on her desk. We are meeting in her office in ...

Overall, these transparent soil substitutes are powerful tools that will help us answer many outstanding questions in soil microbial ecology." ...

Tasmanian dairy farmers trial microbes across 500 hectares of land with the help of a "top-notch" soil biologist to reduce ...

New research reveals that when soils face combined human impacts like warming, drought, and pollution, the bacteria and ...

Purdue Extension will host a pasture ecology workshop June 18 at the Southern Indiana Purdue Ag Center (SIPAC) in ...

a senior staff scientist studying soil microbial ecology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, agrees. “Each microorganism has a bag of tricks…it’s hard wired to carry out—a defined functional ...

The studies described above illustrate the usefulness of existing soil archives in providing a readily available source of ecological information that is relevant to microbial ecology, probably ...

"Leaf mold compost differs from traditional compost in that it is not stirred as much," says Lori Hoagland, a professor of soil microbial ecology at Purdue University. "This slows down the time it ...

(Photo by Hannah Rodgers) Kernza is exactly what graduate students Hannah Rodgers and Alex Fox set out to research in Linda van Diepen’s soil microbial ecology lab. Rodgers’ project focuses ...

Studies funded under this initiative directly support the TOMI project by: 1) identifying genetic markers to integrate selection for microbiome-mediated resistance to both soil and foliar ... quality ...