“Protocols in Root-Microbe Interactions” describes laboratory protocols that have been developed and optimized for scientists working in root-microbe interactions, specifically for those wanting to ...

“Extrapolating from the medical field, we know that the microbiome influences almost everything that we do, from the way we think, from what kind of food we eat, from our own responses towards a ...

Different types of barley recruit distinct communities of soil microbes to grow around their roots by releasing a custom mix of sugars and other compounds, according to a new study. Different types of ...

Microbes could help oak trees cope with environmental change. Publishing February 11 in the Cell Press journal Cell Host & Microbe, a study observing oaks growing in a natural woodland found that the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic reminded us that social interactions transmit pathogens. But do humans spread "good" bugs, too? Very much so, say a team of biologists who are probing the links between the ...

In a breakthrough for the advanced study of gut health, scientists have developed a 3D microscopic version of the human intestines condensed into a small chip about half the size of a five-cent coin.

The barley diversity panel growing at the John Innes Centre farm, Norfolk, UK. Credit: Alba Pacheco-Moreno (CC-BY 4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) The ...