While companion planting can be used to benefit the garden, it's also important to keep certain plants away from one another, ...

What is the current state of soils in Kenya?According to the Soil Atlas, over 40 per cent of East Africa’s soils are degraded, with Kenya losing 26 tonnes of soil per hectare annually due to erosion.

The Mystery of Consciousness: Neural Networks and Beyond The thalamocortical resonance hypothesis links consciousness to 40Hz gamma waves in the thalamus. Split-brain patients reveal separate ...

Clover Whether three- or four-leaved, you’re lucky if your lawn contains clover. Like dandelions, ‘White Dutch’ clover, the ...

Research into bacteria strains that are both competitive and efficient in nitrogen fixation and developing plants with those characteristics is the goal of NDSU research started in October 2024.

The result? The bacteria got fat and happy but stopped fixing nitrogen, leaving the plant without its much-needed nutrient boost. For over a century, the Casparian strip has been known as the root’s ...

The seed treatment supplies two bacteria capable of atmospheric nitrogen fixation, one of which also helps to release phosphate from the soil to enhance plant establishment. Importantly ...

But some plants have found their own solution. They have teamed up with soil-dwelling bacteria that are able to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere into forms that plants can use. Similar nitrogen-fixing ...

Bacteria and archaea help convert atmospheric nitrogen gas to ammonia by nitrogen fixation (or ammonification) to make nitrogen usable for plants. Unlike many free-living nitrogen-fixing bacteria ...

do so by harboring symbiotic bacteria in root nodules. But a recent discovery upends that rule. In two recent papers, an international team of scientists describe the first known nitrogen-fixing ...

Agritech giant Bayer, for instance, has a partnership with synthetic biology company Ginkgo Bioworks to develop more efficient nitrogen-fixing strains of bacteria. Another is Massachusetts-based ...