To protect crops from rising droughts, scientists are looking to the genes of a small group of plants that can survive months ...

Plants are able to modify their root hydraulics ... They also indicate that, in addition to assessing root morphology and the rhizosphere, phenotyping the adaptive changes in root hydraulic ...

Findings, now published in Plant, Cell & Environment, show that the microbiomes in the root surface zone and rhizosphere are distinctive in four different tree species. Results also exhibited ...

Yaqi You of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, has been honored with a New Investigator Award from the Joint Genome Institute at the Department of Energy. This award will support ...

MicroGea is applied in four biofertilizers, designed to address different crop needs and improve nutrient efficiency and soil ...

Rice rhizosphere microbiota plays a crucial role in crop yield ... As examples, greater photosynthetic rate, enlarged plant root system, elevated Na+/K+ ratio, higher proline content, better soluble ...

It prevents erosion, cools the roots of your garden plants, and reduces water evaporation. Mulching also reduces weeds and encourages the beneficial soil rhizosphere to grow. Enhancement of the soil ...

Learn how to grow the most nutrient-dense vegetables by starting with healthy soil to get the nutrients needed to produce the ...

Soil salinity is a global problem that greatly restricts agriculture production, and salt stress is one of the traditional ...

Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...