Dr Harry Langford, Head of Sustainability at the UK Agri-Tech Centre, highlights the role of soil health in agriculture.

A new study led by the University of Oxford has used a modeling approach to show that it is unlikely that plants would evolve ...

Beneficial relationships between plants and soil microbes play a critical role in agriculture, providing sustainable ...

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Fr. in mycorrhizal connexion with pine seedlings transfer nitrogen from a solution of an ammonium salt to the roots. The labelled nitrogen was added as ammonium nitrate containing the stable ...

One of the best strategies is to use beneficial soil microbes, including arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, in order to increase plant tolerance to salt. The findings of this review showed that salinity ...

Arbuscular mycorrhiza is the most common form of symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots of a vascular plant. The fungal hyphae penetrate plant cells and develop branching ...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associate with plant roots. Credit: Edmund Bridge Researchers have discovered a biological mechanism that makes plant roots more welcoming to beneficial soil microbes.

Researchers have discovered a biological mechanism that makes plant roots more welcoming to beneficial soil microbes. This discovery by John Innes Centre researchers paves the way for more ...

Scientists have warned that blueberries could be wiped out a fungus rapidly-spreading worldwide. Caused by a two different strains of fungus, the disease appears as a white powdery mildew on ...

While many traditional Chinese/herbal medicine consumers are drawn to the fungus for its supposed health benefits, my interest lies in a darker side of its harvest: the deadly relationship between ...

A fungus causing powdery mildew in blueberries has spread from the U.S. to continents like Europe and Asia, threatening crops and increasing fungicide dependence. NC State researchers found that ...