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Ihio Ag Net https://ocj.com/2023/09/highly-functioning-healthy-soils/
By Dusty Sonnenberg, CCA, Field Leader, a project of the Ohio Soybean Council and Soybean Check-off. In his years studying soils, Adam Daugherty, NRCS District Conservationist, …
ScienceDaily
Phys.Org https://phys.org/news/2020-02-climate-affects-soil-health.html
Climate change is affecting the health of agricultural soils. Increased heat and drought make life easy for the pathogenic fungus Pythium ultimum. As an …
Phys.Org
by US Department of Energy Plants provide a home for a wide diversity of microbes, especially in their roots. In turn, these communities can provide important benefits for the host. A study published in Current Biology investigated …
The ISME Journal
Abstract The root microbiome is shaped by plant root activity, …
ScienceDaily Spatial distribution of pores helps determine where carbon is stored in the soil
Phys.Org
by Leiden University "What I find most alluring about soil life is that you can steer it," researcher Martijn Bezemer of the Institute Biology Leiden (IBL) reveals. "You can ask: What do you want? And then I can transform the soil into …
Phys.Org https://phys.org/news/2021-03-microbial-plant-interactions-affect-microbial-response.html
by University of California, IrvineUniversity of California, Irvine, biologists have discovered that plants influence how their bacterial and …
The Crescent News https://www.crescent-news.com/news/local_farm/relationship-between-nitrogen-and-crop-disease/article_d6c9c6f5-98d0-556c-8ef7-75681fc5288b.html
By Hoorman Soil Health Services Nitrogen (N) is the fourth most abundant plant nutrient …
Phys.Org https://phys.org/news/2020-10-census-soil-microbiome.html
by Lori Dajose, California Institute of Technology Many people have experienced the mysterious death of a houseplant. Despite ample water and sunlight, something invisible seems to …