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Biochar, produced from crop residues through pyrolysis, enhances soil fertility, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and ...

In collaboration with professors at the University, researchers are working on a new nitrogen-retaining corn breed.

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A review examines how quorum sensing, a bacterial communication system, shapes marine eukaryote interactions, influencing processes such as development, disease pathogenesis, and microbiome ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — The researchers showed that when curcumin is intentionally given to bacteria as food and then activated by light, it can trigger deleterious reactions within these microbes ...

Moreover, the dominant sources of dissolved N2O were analyzed. N2O in the water column was predominately produced by nitrification and coupled nitrification-denitrification on suspended particulate ...

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This discovery could also have implications in studies of polymer-secreting conglomerations of bacteria known as biofilms—the slippery goo on river rocks, for example—and in industrial ...