A warming climate is disrupting the delicate balance of nature. An international team of scientists led by entomologists from the Biology Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences has found that higher temperatures significantly reduce the success of parasitoids—tiny wasps that help regulate insect populations in nature.

With a new electrochemical synthesis via an electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR), achieving carbon-free ammonia production is closer to reality through work from Drs.

The association of plants and microorganisms is a major determinant that influences the plant health, uptake of nutrients, and resilience to climate change. The technological advancements in the fields of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics have enabled understanding of these symbiotic interactions at cellular and molecular levels. The identification of molecular mechanisms that underlie the mutualistic association between plants and different kinds of beneficial microbes such as mycorrhizal fungi, rhizobia, endophytes, and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria has revealed major signaling pathways such as the common symbiosis signaling pathway, hormone crosstalk, and microbe-associated molecular patterns. Recent studies have demonstrated that the Common Symbiosis Signaling Pathway (CSSP) is essential and conserved among diverse plant species, and assumes an important role in plant symbiotic interactions. Microbial consortia, notwithstanding their broad potential, are strongly dependent on the context and their results vary according to factors such as microbial competition, host genotype, and soil heterogeneity, which in turn explain the inconsistencies that have been observed in the field. The partnerships between plants and microbes could lead to exciting transformation for agriculture that’s both sustainable and resilient to climate challenges.

A global synthesis of >600 studies finds that across agro-ecosystems, grasslands and forests in temperate and tropical zones, increasing plant diversity has a consistently positive effect on plant ...

Antimicrobial resistance threatens our health and economic security. Organizations are urged to sign the Davos Compact on AMR to tackle this global threat.

David Brandt, who died last week, was an Ohio farmer known for his pioneering work in no-till farming. But social media users knew him better as the overall-clad farmer from the "honest work" meme.