An international research team has discovered that comammox bacteria, first identified by them in 2015, can grow using guanidine, a nitrogen-rich organic compound, as their sole energy and nitrogen ...
Alonso Favela (pictured) and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign colleagues found that genes from corn's wild relative, teosinte, inhibited nitrifying and denitrifying microbes in soil, a trait ...
In the study “Microflora Danica,” published in the renowned journal Nature, over 10,000 environmental samples from across Denmark were analyzed - on average at intervals of only around 4 square ...