Model microbes such as Escherichia coli hog scientists’ attention, leaving most known bacteria with few publications devoted ...

Engineers at Princeton showed that some types of soil bacteria can influence a plant’s balance of growth and defense. The ...

If corn was ever jealous of soybean's relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, advancements in gene editing could one day ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are already directly responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people every year, ...

Now, engineers at Princeton have found an answer in an unexpected place: the harmless, or sometimes beneficial, bacteria that cluster around plants’ roots. In an article published Dec. 24 in the ...

japonica, the team found that similar genes are found in many common soil bacteria, and their assays showed that dozens of bacterial isolates could suppress flagellin-induced immunity. Now ...

Bombay researchers have identified bacteria that can consume toxic pollutants in the soil and produce helpful nutrients as a ...

More research is needed to determine just how exposure to a bacteria found in dirt could prevent weight gain ... work in the garden and eat a variety of fresh vegetables (they soak up healthy microbes ...

Experiments and modeling reveal the unexpected structure that can be seen in bacteria grown in mucus samples and biofilms.

Soil contamination is one of the major issues ... while breaking down aromatic pollutants, these bacteria were also found to convert insoluble forms of essential nutrients, such as phosphorus ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario say they’ve made a breakthrough in introducing a new trait into bacteria found in wastewater, giving them the ability to break down microplastics.

the researchers have used the power of specific bacterial species to remove organic pollutants from soil. Moreover, these bacteria were also found to help boost the growth hormones of the plants ...