Sentences with phrase «microbes in the soil»

Large - scale agriculture is changing the makeup of microbes in the soil, rendering it less biologically diverse.

It's an odor produced by microbes in the soil as they break down plants.

damage to beneficial microbes in the soil increasing the likelihood of infection of a crop by soil pathogens

But a 2001 National Research Council report says biologists already have difficulty detecting microbes in soil samples from Earth, so detecting something we've never encountered before strains the imagination.

Conventional farming methods that use toxic, synthetic chemical fertilizers, insecticides and pesticides kill microbes in the soil.

Microbes in the soil digest some of what remains to produce nitrogen oxides, or NOx.

«This may be an important mechanism to help support diverse microbes in soil,» said Northen.

But after a rainstorm, scientists found living microbes in the soil.

Now researchers report that they've found a new strain of methane - eating microbes in soil samples from Axel Heiberg Island, in the Canadian high Arctic.

Microbes in soil determine in large part how the planet stores carbon, when and how carbon is released into the environment, how plants take up nutrients and how crops fare.

Certain types of microbes in the soil seemed to speed plant flowering time, the team found, while others, such as members of the Proteobacteria phylum, slowed it down.

Scientists have long wondered whether microbes in the soil of this hyperarid environment, the most similar place on Earth to the Martian surface, are permanent residents or merely dying vestiges of life, blown in by the weather.

«We want to know how plants and microbes in the soil talk to each other,» said Marit Nilsen - Hamilton, an Ames Laboratory scientist and professor in the Roy J Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology at Iowa State University.

Microbes in the soil help a child's immune system develop and also provide beneficial soil based organisms, which are potent probiotics.

As the Earth heats up, microbes in the soil accelerate the breakdown of organic materials and move on to others that may have once been ignored, each time releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

When fertiliser is added it stimulates microbes in the soil that convert nitrogen to nitrous oxide» explains Hergoualc» h.

Carbon dioxide (CO2) Burning fossil fuels & deforestation Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) Refrigerants, Styrofoam, propellants Methane (CH4) Animal waste, biomass burning, fossil fuels, landfills, livestock, rice paddies, sewage, wetlands Nitrous oxide - N20 Biomass burning, deforestation, microbes in soil Water Vapor (H20) Evaporation, plant respiration (transpiration)

Researchers created SUSIBA2 rice by introducing a single gene from barley into common rice, resulting in a plant that can better feed its grains, stems and leaves while starving off methane - producing microbes in the soil.

I have been distraught for days, but I am looking up other labs where I might be able to do work in line with my obsession with beneficial microbes in soil and in the gut.

DeBruyn, who typically studies the communities of microbes in soils, is one of a handful of researchers probing such communities in and on cadavers.

Of course New York City needs the microbes in the soil and the roots from the trees and plants of the Catskill Mountains to clean up its drinking water.

«We have to take care of the microbes in the soil,» she says.

But researchers report today that they've figured out how to predict the structures of hundreds of unmapped proteins by gleaning insights from one of the strangest of places: «metagenomics» projects that sequence DNA from broad swaths of microbes in the soils and seas.

«However, the balance of the microbes in the soil can be disturbed when seagrass beds start to decline due to other pressures, helping the alga invade new areas.»

After extracting and analyzing DNA at the core of the coprolites, which haven't been contaminated by microbes in the soil, the researchers found that although both tribes consumed seafood, only the Saladoid samples contained freshwater fish parasites, suggesting that the tribe consumed raw fish regularly.

The reason is that carbon locked up as starch in the rice grains (and other tissues, except roots) isn't available to the microbes in the soil.

Radishes fed fertilizer by microbes in the soil (right) grow larger than their counterparts without the bugs.

Jansson considers untangling the microbes in soil especially challenging because there is a huge diversity.

«Because there are so many different types of microbes in soil, if the plants release just any chemical it could be detrimental to their health.

Many of those antibiotics were developed from microbes in soil.

This could have devastating effects: Kids need to be exposed to the microbes in the soil to build up their defenses against diseases that may attack them later.

Nitrous Oxide (N2O) is emitted when urine, faeces and fertilisers are broken down by microbes in the soil.

Twenty years of field study reveal that as the Earth has gotten warmer, plants and microbes in the soil have given off more carbon dioxide.