Gujarat recorded a substantial rise in the export of pulses, guar gum, and dairy products from April of last year to January, ...

Methanotrophic Bacteria Methanotrophs might be small, but they pack a powerful punch when it comes to turning methane, a ...

The agricultural microbials market is estimated at USD 9.45 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach USD 18.75 billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 14.7% from 2025 to 2030, according to a report published ...

Rhizobial symbiosis refers to the mutually beneficial relationship that forms between plants and soil bacteria that fix nitrogen, termed rhizobia. The authors report that iron binds to and ...

Fungal infections, such as athlete’s foot and ringworm, occur when one type of fungal microbe becomes too prevalent in one area of the body so that the immune system cannot defeat it. Like many ...

Researchers in the group of Dr Myriam Charpentier discovered a mutation in a gene in the legume Medicago truncatula that reprogrammes the signaling capacity of the plant so that it enhances ...

Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno60200, Czech Republic National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno60200, Czech Republic ...

Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have discovered that bacterial cells growing in a solution of polymers, such as mucus, form long cables that buckle and twist on each other ...

It added that sugar beans required 40 to 60 kilogrammes of nitrogen per hectare, while rhizobium bacteria fix 50 to 60 kilogrammes for each hectare. Using ammonium nitrate (AN) would require ...

Excitingly, the team used genetic approaches to show that the same gene mutation in wheat enhances colonization by nitrogen fixing bacteria and AMF in field conditions too. The findings represent ...