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Fungal and Plant Extracts Boost Germination of a Key Tropical Forage Grass

Brazilian researchers found that removing the outer seed coverings and treating seeds with extracts from Trichoderma orientale grown on agricultural waste and from Pereskia aculeat...

🌱 GREEN MANURES — Feed the Soil, Not Just the Crop!

 🌱 GREEN MANURES — Feed the Soil, Not Just the Crop!Green manuring is a simple but powerful practice where fast-growing crops are incorporated into the soil while still green...

Invasive plant growth shaped by soil microbes and local leaf inputs

In a discovery that could reshape how scientists think about biological invasions, researchers in China have shown that the notorious invasive plant Ageratina adenophora—widely kno...

Soil Bacteria Paired with Humic Acid Shield Wheat Yields from Drought Stress

A field experiment found that combining the bacterium Azospirillum brasilense with humic acid improved wheat growth, physiology and drought tolerance when water was withheld at the...

Zapping Roots and Adding Bacteria Boosts Blueberry Size and Color in Field Trial

In a commercial greenhouse tunnel in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, rows of two-year-old highbush blueberry plants grew in bags of coconut coir and wood chips, their roots threaded thro...

🌿 Foliar vs Root Fertilization: Two Pathways, One Goal

В Г°ЕёЕ’Вї Foliar vs Root Fertilization: Two Pathways, One GoalPlants can take up nutrients through both leaves and roots, but each pathway serves a different purpose.Root fertiliz...

A broad-host-range <i>Rhizobium rhizogenes</i> strain enables transient expression across diverse crop speci...

by Freddie King, Juan Carlos Lopez-Agudelo, Christopher Stephens, May Htet Aung, Tarhan Ibrahim, Enoch Lok Him Yuen, Ao Chen, Nick Eilmann, Saskia Jenkins, Cristina Vuolo, Yueh-Nin...

Root-dwelling bacterium shields mulberries from gray mold while boosting growth

Beneath the soil of a millennium-old mulberry grove in China, scientists have recovered a bacterium that may rewrite how one of the world’s oldest crops defends itself agains...

Plant-Microbe Speed Dating Paves The Way For Sustainable Agriculture

Researchers have teamed up with Belgian citizens to conduct a mass match-making experiment between cold-tolerant soybeans and rhizobia.

Microbial Allies: How Biofertilizers Could Reshape the Future of Farming

A sweeping review published in Discover Soil argues that the future of global food security may rest less on the next bag of synthetic fertilizer and more on the trillions of micro...

Lab-Built Microbiome from Salt-Tolerant Plants Helps Rice Beat Salty Soils

Researchers built a simplified synthetic bacterial community from the rhizosphere of a salt-tolerant plant and showed it boosts rice growth and yield under salt-alkali stress.

Engineered Rhizobium Strain Opens Transient Gene Expression to Diverse Crops

An engineered Rhizobium rhizogenes strain called AS109 enables efficient transient gene expression across diverse dicot crop species, opening rapid functional genomics to non-model...

Tiny Carbon Dots Coated in Amino Acids Help Medicinal Plant Fight Cadmium Pollution

Cadmium is one of the most stubborn contaminants in agricultural soils, and for growers of Houttuynia cordata, a medicinal herb prized across Asia for its anti-inflammatory and ant...

Cotton’s Hidden Fungal Allies Could Reshape the Fight Against Charcoal Rot

A new Israeli field and greenhouse study reveals that Trichoderma-based and integrated management regimes reshape the fungal communities inside cotton roots, and that specific root...

Syngenta Announces New Biologicals Technology

Syngenta recently announced new EXORTâ„¢ technology, a major scientific breakthrough the company says helps plants make better use of their own biology. This new technology opens t...

Disease Management Boosts Mango Yields Amid Bacterial Black Spot in Southern Ghana

A Three-Part Disease-Fighting Strategy Could Dramatically Increase Ghana’s Mango Yields A new study from southern Ghana suggests that mango farmers can more than double productivit...

Rhizosphere bacterium Bacillus amyloliquefaciens F2 shows strong biocontrol against banana Fusarium wilt TR4 in Pakistan

Researchers isolated a rhizosphere Bacillus amyloliquefaciens strain from healthy banana plants in TR4-infested Pakistani fields that inhibited the Fusarium wilt pathogen by up to...

Early Gibberellin Surge Under High-Density Planting Weakens Rapeseed Stems, Study Finds

Rapeseed, one of the world’s most important oilseed crops and a cornerstone of global vegetable oil production, has long presented growers with a difficult trade-off. Planting more...

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Huma® Enters Granular Fertilizer Market

Agricultural humic solutions leader Huma has entered the agricultural granular fertilizer market with Gro-Power humic-based fertilizer and soil conditioner products. Huma purchased...

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