There are few things more satisfying than a lush green field of soybeans laden with pods. To enhance the crop—and maybe increase yield—farmers have used inoculants for many years. As a legume, ...

If corn was ever jealous of soybean's relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, advancements in gene editing could one day even the playing field. A recent study shows that gene-edited bacteria can ...

Liz Koziol works with the world’s largest collection of a category of soil fungus that benefits many plant species, the International Collection of Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi. She and ...

Music evokes feelings in humans and even in other animals. Some pieces can soothe, while others can energize. However, we weren’t expecting fungus to also exhibit this type of preference. It’s not ...

Can Fungi Really Unleash a Zombie Apocalypse? Now, in this new study published in the journal Biology Letters, scientists examined if the fungus Trichoderma harzianum benefited from similar sonic ...

The discovery that sound improves the growth rate of beneficial fungus suggests that dirges in the dirt may help restore forests. By Veronique Greenwood The soil beneath our feet, home to fungi, ...

The idea of music boosting plant growth has been around for many years, but a new study has found that monotonous noise stimulates a type of fungus that improves the growth of plants. In a paper in ...

Farmers are always looking for an advantage, and in one specialized market one company touts its seed treatment process to put money in the pockets of durum wheat growers. Yalos is a bio-inoculant ...