The film explores the vital role of microorganisms in soil, highlighting that soil is teeming with microscopic plants and animals that are essential for plant growth and the overall balance of life on ...

Microbiology is the study of microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, archaea, fungi and protozoa. This discipline includes fundamental research on the biochemistry, physiology, cell biology, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Mycologists tend to base their evolutionary assumptions about all fungi on the higher fungi such as mushrooms, bread molds and yeasts. But that is a mistake, according to a ...

The findings indicate that these soil-like substrates may enable researchers to observe the complex interactions of the myriad microscopic creatures that live in soil. This ability is crucial to help ...

The Coastal Prairie Chapter of Texas Master Naturalist will host Ph.D candidate Michelle Sneck on May 7 at 7 p.m. in the Bud O’Shieles Community Center in Rosenberg. Sneck, who is studying ecology and ...

A new study describes the complex ecosystems of bacteria and fungi that live and feast on a 17 th-century painting—and how other species of bacteria may one day help art conservators fight back. If ...

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The location and activity of saprophytic and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal phosphatases have been investigated with a fluorogenic substrate (ELF) that forms a fluorescent crystalline precipitate ...

Microbiology techniques are methods used for the study of microbes, including bacteria and microscopic fungi and protists. They include methods to survey, culture, stain, identify, engineer and ...