2013; Zhou et al., 2018; Liu et al., 2019). Recently, it was found that exogenous Si could significantly affect soil microbial communities and the resistance of tomato against bacterial wilt (Liu et ...

and stored at -80°C for soil bacterial and microbial biomass determination. The remaining portion was air-dried for pH, electrical conductivity, soil organic carbon, available phosphorus, ...

When applied at planting, the bacteria ... even greater benefits. Still, the products could be useful in certain applications today. "Every farm has areas of the field where the soil does not ...

Gene-Edited Soil Bacteria Could Provide Third Source of Nitrogen for Corn Production Jan. 16, 2025 — If corn was ever jealous of soybean's relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria ...

Biochar, produced from crop residues through pyrolysis, enhances soil fertility, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and ...

Removing them from the soil is neither easy nor cheap ... In the future, researchers want to test how these bacteria can benefit plants during droughts and other environmental stress conditions. “ ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — The researchers showed that when curcumin is intentionally given to bacteria as food and then activated by light, it can trigger deleterious reactions within these microbes ...

Shawn Power, an operations manager with the garden supply store GrowGeneration in Redding, told the Northstate’s News this ...

While coffee grounds can benefit some plants, using them is not always necessary ... may be excellent for the human biome but ...