soil bacterium

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

On-site pathogen analysis is accurate, quick, and inexpensive

Functionally linking microbial community structure with environmental chemistry

Three scientists have proposed a new approach to better understand the role of soil organic matter in long-term carbon storage and its response to changes in global climate and atmospheric chemistry

Although agricultural improvements have boosted food production in the past 50 years, drought and salinization threaten more than half of the planet’s arable land

Researchers have shown how the community of bacteria present in the soil of land that had been cleared and grazed for 100 years was returned to its natural state just eight years after revegetation with native plants

TB bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to treatments—more than 250,000 deaths in 2015 from drug-resistant infections