Chemical fertilizers have revolutionized gardening, offering quick and visible results by providing plants with essential nutrients. However, these seemingly convenient solutions come with hidden ...

Plant growth is supported by millions of tiny soil microbes competing and cooperating with each other as they perform important roles at the plant root, including improving access to nutrients and ...

UC Davis researchers engineered wheat that encourages soil bacteria to convert atmospheric nitrogen into plant-usable fertilizer. By boosting a natural compound in the plant, the wheat triggers ...

BIOFERTILIZERS are the most promising substitute for urea, an inorganic fertilizer with a high nitrogen concentrations. More than 40 microorganisms are used to produce biofertilizers but the most ...