Most crops have lost the ability to cultivate their microbial helpers. Now a new study asked if for rice is possible to regain this ability from their wild relatives.
Tag Archives: Micro-organisms
Plants Talk—Just Not the Way You Think
Do plants really talk among themselves or is this all just chemistry with a bit of humanising sauce put in the mix.
Subtle nudges
Most of us know penicillin as an antibiotic. It is made by the soil dwelling Penicillin rubens fungus. Now this fungus has many brothers and sisters, some of which like to nestle themselves between the cells of roots. For the plant this is positive as colonized plants grow more roots. Now a new study by Spanish a Czech researchers shows that Penicillin melinii enhances root growth with subtle nudges.
Salt loving bacteria help plants in salty soils
Crops growing on salty soil do less well than their on none salty soil growing counterparts. And this is a problem, as salinity affects huge swatches of soil all over the world. Now a group of Indian researchers decided to find out if salt loving bacteria could help plants grow on salty soils.
