Researchers look at small RNA pathways in maize tassels
Researchers at the University of Delaware and other institutions across the country have been awarded a four-year, $6.5 million National Science Foundation grant to analyze developmental events in...
View ArticleCrowd-sourcing effort to fight antibiotic resistance
A class of microbiology students at Iowa State University hopes that the next big discovery in the fight against antibiotic-resistant diseases is right below their feet.
View ArticleStudy shows manure from cows not given antibiotics still causes increase in...
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers working out of Yale University has found that soil treated with cow manure from cows that never received antibiotics, still had more resistant bacteria in it than soil...
View ArticleUndergraduate studies how rhododendrons invade and conquer by disturbing...
How important is the soil beneath our feet to what grows above it?
View ArticleResearchers offer taphonomic degradation processes for mammalian hair
(Phys.org) —A team made up of researchers from the U.S. and Australia has put together what they describe as a complete outline of the taphonomic (post-mortem) degradation processes for mammalian hair....
View ArticleResearchers collect soil samples from around the globe in effort to conduct...
(Phys.org)—A large team of researchers with members from around the world has conducted a global survey of soil fungi by collecting thousands of soil samples from sites all around the world. In their...
View ArticleNew DNA facility gets down and dirty with WA's soil microbiology
Soil microbiology will be better documented thanks to a new high-throughput DNA sequencing facility, launched last month at the University of Western Australia.
View ArticleFarmers can use free online system to map fields and reduce soil erosion
Dean Patches' to-do list has no end.
View ArticleStudy shows isopods may dampen impact of global warming on forest soil
(Phys.org)—An international team of researchers working in a forest in Massachusetts has found that the impact of global warming on forest soil might be less than predicted due to isopod activity in...
View ArticleSoil in Northern China is drying out and farming, not climate change, is culprit
An important agricultural region in China is drying out, and increased farming may be more to blame than rising temperatures and less rain, according to a study spanning 30 years of data.
View ArticleSMAP team investigating radar instrument anomaly
Mission managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, are assessing an anomaly with the radar instrument on NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite observatory. The...
View ArticleCitizen scientists enlisted for research examining soil moisture conditions...
NASA scientists are on a mission to map global soil moisture, and through SciStarter, they're teaming up with citizen scientists to gather valuable data from the ground to complement and validate what...
View ArticleWork on barren soil may bear fruit
Australian and Chinese scientists have made significant progress in determining what causes soil acidification - a discovery that could assist in turning back the clock on degraded croplands.
View ArticleResearchers identify behaviors of nanoparticle that shows promise as...
Researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered unique behaviors of hydroxyapatite nanoparticles (HANPs) that show promise as a phosphorus nanofertilizer and could be used to help slow the...
View ArticleOrbiter views Mars surface fractures
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter often takes images of Martian sand dunes to study the mobile soils. These images provide...
View ArticleProject brings a Mars farm plot to Wisconsin
Two University of Wisconsin-Stout professors are taking their students to Mars.
View ArticleResearch may lead to new control for devastating rice disease
In a "clash of the microbes," University of Delaware plant scientists are uncovering more clues critical to disarming a fungus that is the number one killer of rice plants.
View ArticleResearchers uncover what makes plants 'clot'
University of Delaware researchers have identified two novel molecular players necessary to regulate plasmodesmata—communication channels in plants that bridge individual cells with their neighboring...
View ArticleEastern forests use up nitrogen in soil during earlier, greener springs
A warming climate is causing earlier springs and later autumns in eastern forests of the United States, lengthening the growing season for trees and potentially changing how forests function....
View ArticleTaking stock of charcoal in the world's soil
Forest fires hit the headlines all too regularly - in fact, fire affects about 4.64 million km2 of biomass per year, an area almost three times the size of Alaska. But after the fire something remains...
View ArticleSwitchgrass may be a good option for farmers who have lost fertile topsoil
The loss of fertile topsoil from agricultural fields is an economic problem for modern farmers. When runoff water washes topsoil from agricultural fields in areas with claypan soils under the topsoil,...
View ArticleMicrobes rule in 'knee-high tropical rainforests'
Rainforests on infertile wet soils support more than half of all plant species. Shrublands on infertile dry soils in southwestern Australia, jokingly called "knee-high tropical rainforests", support...
View ArticleInternational science collaboration growing at astonishing rate
Even those who follow science may be surprised by how quickly international collaboration in scientific studies is growing, according to new research.
View ArticleStabilizing soils with sulfates to improve their constructional properties
The journal Applied Clay Science has recently published the paper 'Sulfate soils stabilization with magnesium-based bindersâ', a piece of research led by Dr Andrés Seco-Meneses on the stabilizing of...
View ArticleCattle associated antibiotics disturb soil ecosystems
Manure from cattle administered antibiotics drastically changes the bacterial and fungal make-up of surrounding soil, leading to ecosystem dysfunction, according to a Virginia Tech research team.
View ArticleResearchers discover high-def electron pathways in soil
All plants need electrons to aid biological and chemical tasks. Cornell scientists have discovered a new high-definition system that allows electrons to travel through soil farther and more efficiently...
View ArticleSoil holds potential to slow global warming, researchers find
If you want to do something about global warming, look under your feet. Managed well, soil's ability to trap carbon dioxide is potentially much greater than previously estimated, according to Stanford...
View ArticleCover crops provide bed and breakfast layover for migrating birds
After harvesting a corn or soybean crop, farmers may plant a cover crop for a variety of reasons—to reduce soil erosion and nutrient runoff, increase organic matter in the soil, and improve water...
View ArticleHow antibiotic use in animals is contributing to antibiotic resistance
The overuse of veterinary antibiotics in animal production and the subsequent land applications of manure contribute to increased antibiotic resistance in soil. A new review published in the European...
View ArticleNew study proposes greater sharing of data between farmers and archaeologists
A Bristol-led study suggests that developments in precision farming could yield data of great use to archaeological research, and that archaeological data could be valuable for modern farming systems.
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