From oats to beans to chicory root, each type of fiber acts differently inside the body. New research is revealing how fiber ...

Growing demand for eco-conscious turf care and soil management highlights a shift toward sustainable materials and ...

Seventy percent of soils in Europe are contaminated with pesticides. A Europe-wide study co-led by researchers of the ...

ABSTRACT: Little is known about the mycotrophic status and biological production of strawberries in sub-Saharan Africa. This study investigated arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in the rhizospheres ...

1 National Key Laboratory for Development and Utilization of Forest Food Resources, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China 2 Provincial Key Laboratory for Non-wood Forest and Quality Control and ...

1 The Mina & Everard Goodman, Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. 2 School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. The determination of live ...

Many alpine ecosystems are undergoing vegetation degradation because of global change, which is affecting ecosystem functioning and biodiversity. The ecological consequences of alpine pioneer ...

Understanding the impacts of pesticide diversity on soil microbial functions remains limited, particularly under different nitrogen fertilizer management practices. Our study demonstrated that higher ...

The aim of this work was to evaluate the effect of earthworms (Lumbricidae) on the enzymatic activity and microbial functional diversity in the burrow system [burrow wall (BW) 0–3 mm, transitional ...