In a warming corner of Iceland, tiny soil microbes are quietly rewriting one of Earth’s most fundamental life-support systems ...

Researchers showed that teosinte gene fragments in modern corn suppress nitrifying and denitrifying soil bacteria, reducing ...

Scientists have discovered that cyanobacteria, microscopic organisms best known for driving harmful algal blooms, may play a ...

By the end of the 20th century,some scientists believed that the planet’s finite food resources would soon cap the world’s population. In his highly controversial 1968 book The Population Bomb, US ...

Corn bred with genes from wild relatives can reshape soil microbial communities and reduce nitrogen loss — with no yield ...

Under the lead of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) the influence of parasitic fungi on the physiology and survival of cyanobacteria in the Baltic Sea was investigated.

How does climate change influence the planet’s nitrogen cycle? This is what a recent study published in Nitrogen Cycling hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated climate change’s impact ...

Mariangela Hungria knew she was on the verge of a scientific breakthrough that could transform Brazilian agriculture, fight hunger, slash pollution and keep struggling farmers out of bankruptcy. But, ...

UC Davis researchers engineered wheat that encourages soil bacteria to convert atmospheric nitrogen into plant-usable fertilizer. By boosting a natural compound in the plant, the wheat triggers ...

Damian Bailey is supported by a Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellowship (Grant No. WM170007). Damian Bailey is Editor-in-Chief of Experimental Physiology, Chair of the Life Sciences Working Group, ...

Researchers are one step closer to understanding how some plants survive without nitrogen. Their work could eventually reduce the need for artificial fertilizer in crops such as wheat, maize, or rice.