in Cologne has now investigated the three-dimensional microbiota structure around plant roots. In an article published in Cell Host & Microbe, they report that microbial community composition ...

Prof. Chengcai Chu and his team from South China Agricultural University have systematically summarized the process of ...

When gardeners shop for plants, we naturally look for visually pleasing, healthy foliage and flower color. We check the tag ...

1999) exudates - compounds released into the soil/rhizosphere by plant roots (Walker et al. 2003) hartig net - a net-like structure created by ectomycorrhizae fungal hyphae which envelops the ...

A study led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne has shown that the ability to suppress plant immune responses is shared among many of the bacteria that ...

Essentially all of the water used by land plants is absorbed from the soil by roots. A root system consists of a complex network of individual roots that vary in age along their length.

This gave the concrete the right level of porosity to wick water and nutrients through it and allow plant roots to spread. Researchers tested the growth of tomatoes, radishes, and romaine lettuce ...