"We have scaled down the lab equipment to a cylinder 25 centimeters in diameter that can be buried in the soil, allowing continuous imaging of the surrounding soil environment," explains Ph.D. student ...

Soil microbiology research increasingly depends on big data. This means that experiments will no longer only mostly be carried out under controlled conditions in the laboratory but will instead move ...

Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) are a group of bacteria ‘generally recognized as safe’ (GRAS), which is found as a natural preservation agent in 25% of fermented foods in the European diet and 60% of the ...

Salts are compounds formed when positively charged cations such as sodium (Na⁺), calcium (Ca²⁺), magnesium (Mg²⁺) and potassium (K⁺) combine with negatively ...

The primary goal of the TOMI project is to help organic vegetable growers improve the productivity and sustainability of their tomato crops by developing new biologically-based approaches to manage ...

Liquefaction is a severe earthquake-induced ground failure that reduces soil strength and foundation stability. This study examined the influence of fines content (FC) on soil liquefaction behaviour ...

Anxious about the rueful state of his peas, radishes and onions, Rod Marquardt arrived at the University of Minnesota’s soil testing laboratory with two lunch bag-sized containers of dirt. “We’re just ...

The Oklahoma State University Extension Soil, Water and Forage Analytical Laboratory on the OSU campus tests more than 58,000 samples each year to protect Oklahoma’s natural resources and support ...

Organic carbon decomposition in soil varies significantly and in regional patterns, driven in part by factors such as soil minerals and microbial properties that have been underrepresented in carbon ...

Beneath every garden bed, farm field, and forest floor, a single teaspoon of soil teems with billions of microorganisms, a ...