Plant–microbe interactions underpin a wide array of processes critical to sustainable agriculture. Beneficial microbial communities associated with plants can enhance nutrient acquisition, bolster ...

Microplastics are increasingly found in agricultural soils worldwide, raising new questions about how they interact with ...

Spending time with close companions might do more than strengthen bonds—it could also reshape your gut bacteria. In a study ...

The human gut is alive with activity. Millions of microorganisms compete, cooperate, and coexist in ways that can profoundly ...

In a recent study, researchers investigated the interactions between Pyricularia oryzae, the rice blast fungus, and the beneficial soil bacterium Streptomyces griseus. They found that P. oryzae ...

A new study reveals that biochar, a carbon-rich material made from biomass, can fundamentally reprogram how plants and soil ...

Harmful algal blooms are not all the same. That's true even of the blooms within northwest Ohio, where researchers have long known that the strain of cyanobacteria that typically dominates blooms in ...

Host microbial interactions are dynamic, reciprocal biological processes in which multicellular hosts and their associated microorganisms (commensal, symbiotic, or pathogenic) exchange signals, ...

At first sight, stromatolites may seem unremarkable. The stromatolite formations found in Shark Bay, Western Australia, do ...

Microbes, whether in our environment or on our bodies, exist in communities where individual members influence each other. To better understand the dynamics of these multi-species communities, ...