A research team led by Prof. Wang Guanghua from the Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology of the Chinese Academy ...

This exponential population growth is accompanied by climate change, bringing challenges such as floods, droughts, pests, ...

Sequencing the soil metagenome will bring considerable economic and environmental value. The soil microbial community is a gold mine for genes and pathways that encode novel biocatalysts for ...

The soil under our feet is teeming with mysterious life forms – possibly more than any other habitat on Earth.

Antibiotic Resistance in Soil Microbial Communities There are an estimated 10 9 microorganisms per gram of soil and less than 1% of those microbes are readily culturable by current methods.

Since time immemorial, plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have coexisted in a mutually beneficial relationship. The ...

Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in the Earth's Critical Zone, an area of deep soil that restores water quality. Ground water, which becomes drinking water, passes through where ...

The proteins are found in many sequences, including bacterial isolates and genomes that were collected in metagnomic studies, or metagenome ... the microbial pathogens that can make us sick, they also ...