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Scientists Hit Pay Dirt with New Microbial Research Technique

June 24, 2019

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

Rare and Diverse Giant Viruses Unexpectedly Found in a Forest Soil Ecosystem

November 19, 2018

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

Researchers Wake Up DNA from Soil Bacteria to Discover Novel Acid Antibiotic

October 23, 2018

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

Top-Performing Soil Microbes Could Be Key to Sustainable Agriculture

August 8, 2018

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

Crop-Saving Soil Tests Now at Farmers' Fingertips

February 27, 2018

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

Real World Native Biocrusts: Microbial Metabolism

January 8, 2018

Functionally linking microbial community structure with environmental chemistry

The Outsized Role of Soil Microbes

August 30, 2017

Three scientists have proposed a new approach to better understand the role of soil organic matter in long-term carbon storag...

Study Finds Drought-Quenching Bacteria Protect Plants from Climate Stress

March 22, 2017

Although agricultural improvements have boosted food production in the past 50 years, drought and salinization threaten more ...

Microbes Measure Ecological Restoration Success

March 14, 2017

Researchers have shown how the community of bacteria present in the soil of land that had been cleared and grazed for 100 yea...

New TB Drug Candidates Developed from Soil Bacteria

March 2, 2017

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

Researcher Uncovers Influence of Microorganisms on Soil Carbon Storage

January 19, 2017

"The activity of microorganisms in soil has the potential to alleviate or worsen climate change, so we need to form predictio...

Lessons from the Aliso Canyon Leak

December 19, 2016

As the saying goes, every cloud has a silver lining. Even when that cloud is 109,000 metric tons of methane

Study Shows 'Cocktail' of Soil Bacteria Can Protect Rice Plants from Deadly Forces

November 22, 2016

Secrets in the soil

Nearing the Limits of Life on Earth

January 20, 2016

Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars

Dirty, Crusty Meals Fit for (Long-Dormant) Microbes

September 23, 2015

Understanding more about the interactions between microbial communities could help shed light on the roles of soil micro...

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