Drinking untreated water can lead to a range of GI illnesses and may contain dangerous industrial contaminants like lead, ...

A University at Buffalo study reveals that a strain isolated from contaminated soil can break down the strong carbon-fluorine ...

Selman Waksman is credited with organizing the research program on soil bacteria at Rutgers University in New Jersey that led to the identification of the groundbreaking antibiotic streptomycin ...

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Turfgrass—including sports fields, roadside ditches and residential lawns—makes up 40 million acres of the United States' ...

In particular, fruit trees can be vulnerable to both bacterial and fungal infections, as their preference for humidity also ...

Benefits of soil organic matter (SOM ... Soil organic matter is composed of soil microbes including bacteria and fungi, decaying material from once-living organisms such as plant and animal ...

A recent study from the University of Illinois shows that gene-edited bacteria can supply the equivalent of 35 pounds of nitrogen from the air during early corn growth, which may ...