The input of fresh organic matter, and the induced priming effect (PE), has long been recognized as a critical regulator of soil organic matter (SOM) ...

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 ...

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 ...

The assembly and maintenance of microbial diversity in natural communities, despite the abundance of toxin-based antagonistic interactions, presents major challenges for biological understanding. A ...

Researchers have mapped how microbes underpin our food systems—and how we can stop their decline. Published in Frontiers in Science, their map of "agri-food system microbiomes" reveals how players at ...

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, ...

Microscopic organisms such as bacteria and fungi live together in neighborhoods known as microbial consortia. Some of these neighborhoods naturally exist in soils, food, water, and even the human gut ...

Microbial distribution, co-occurrence patterns and driving mechanisms in the Yellow River Delta across sedimentary time scales. In this image, the first, second and third plots (A, B and C) showed the ...

Discovery of a unique microbial interaction offers potential for environmentally friendly control of rice blast disease Additionally, the study offers valuable insights into the ecological role of P.