Corn bred with genes from wild relatives can reshape soil microbial communities and reduce nitrogen loss - with no yield reduction - according to new research from the University of Illinois ...

Wild hog rooting starts as feeding, then reshapes water, plants and costs, turning soil into a system under constant daily ...

Some soil bacteria can acquire sets of genes that enable them to pump the heavy metal nickel out of their systems, a study has found. This enables the bacteria to not only thrive in otherwise toxic ...

Alonso Favela (pictured) and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign colleagues found that genes from corn's wild relative, teosinte, inhibited nitrifying and denitrifying microbes in soil, a trait ...

A Native Hill Lotus plant (Acmisponbrachycarpus) growing happily in toxic serpentine soil due to support from its nitrogen fixing rhizobia bacteria symbionts. Photo taken at the Donald and Sylvia ...