A research team from the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has clarified the structure and function of synthetic microbial consortia, providing new insights for ...

Plant roots secrete various flavonoids that are vital in establishing mutually beneficial relationships with rhizobial and mycorrhizal symbionts. Additionally, plants release other signaling molecules ...

The impetus for the move is a new paper in Nature Astronomy that maps out not just the technological blueprint for changing a planet but also the deep moral issues that need to be addressed before ...

Take a typical fish out of water and it won’t live long. It gets the oxygen it needs from the water it swims in. In a similar way, scientists are exploring dependency as a method of controlling what ...

As the climate crisis accelerates, there's a desperate need to rapidly reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, both by slashing emissions and by pulling carbon out of the air. Synthetic ...

How can computer models help design microbial communities? Within the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre CRC1535 “MibiNet” coordinated by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), a ...

In a recent article in press in the journal npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, a group of authors examined how synthetic microbial communities (SynComs) can be used to uncover the mechanisms through which ...

Across North America, in places such as Illinois, Iowa and Texas, farmers are busy growing the crops the world depends on for ...

Biotechnology has long relied on a handful of model microorganisms, such as Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae, whose genetics and physiology are ...

Microbial communities are considered particularly diverse—in soil, water and the human body. A common assumption in ecology ...