Soil/plant biology

Transporting Nutrients throughout the Plant — via Bacteria Q. What’s the role of silicon in plant disease management?  A. In...

Focusing on biology has helped me steward Lakeside Farm in northern Michigan for 45 years With a comfortable breeze, blue...

Q. How do you accelerate the on-ramp to obtaining nutrition from microbes via endophytes while you are on the off-ramp...

Q. Starter fertilizer can shut down the rhizophagy cycle; if you side-dress later in the season, though, would that do...

Two relatively new understandings of how plants and microbes work together — rhizophagy and exclusion-zone water — help explain why...

Keith Berns of Green Cover Seeds discusses hybrid cover crops, seed-microbe interactions, crop insurance and cover crops, the nutrient-chelating effects...

Walter Goldstein of the Mandaamin Institute discusses how corn bred for optimal microbial interaction — varieties that utilize the rhizophagy...

Through the rhizophagy process, plants can accumulate complex molecules like fatty acids — which improve their health and resilience —...

Q: With the latest DNA sequencing technologies, do we have the ability to determine the volume of soil microbes in...

Dr. Laura Kavanaugh, chief science officer of Advancing Eco Agriculture, talks about third-generation DNA soil testing, which can provide greater...