Scientists have discovered a rapid molecular switch in plant roots that allows them to detect dry soils and redirect root ...

There are multiple ways to improve drainage, including planting deep-rooted cover crops, aerating with a chisel plow or ...

Researchers from the Sydney Institute of Agriculture at the University of Sydney investigated the vast and largely hidden ...

The OSU Extension Soil, Water and Forage Analytical Laboratory on the OSU campus tests more than 58,000 samples each year.

In your garden, the color of your soil can also be a clue to what you can grow successfully, or what you’ll need to add to make your soil more viable. For example, reddish or yellowish soil may need ...

A team of researchers has developed a portable and automatic laboratory that can monitor soil chemistry in real time—and without expensive components. The aim is to give us easier access to follow the ...

5 One recent example of soil bacteria engineering involved researchers using a combinatorial synthetic biology–based approach to generate a collection of plant-associated bacteria capable of ...

A wind-polished cypress tree, its roots digging deeper into the soil with every passing season ... You will begin your studies with foundation courses in biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics, ...

and cultivate native soil biology and beneficial fungi directly from the project site. After the soil is laid across the nearly 1-acre native wildlife habitat site, about 5,000 native shrubs and ...

All the way down to the design for the soil biology, and working with our mycologist to figure out where we're harvesting the native mycorrhizal fungi from,” Rock told LAist. “We're designing ...

The soil microbiome keeps the nitrogen cycle “tight” and makes nitrogen available to plants only when they need it. Not only does the biology of the soil process the fertilizer we apply to the soil, ...

And to him, the most important part of soil health is letting the biology in the soil do what comes naturally. “I’m just basically asking my soil biology to ‘do your job,’ ” Bieber said.