» 83% of Earth’s climate-critical fungi are still unknown
15/06/25 06:06 from ScienceDaily: Organic Farming News
Underground fungi may be one of Earth s most powerful and overlooked allies in the fight against climate change, yet most of them remain unknown to science. Known only by DNA, these "dark taxa" make up a shocking 83% of ectomycorrhizal s...

» 160 million years ago, this fungus pierced trees like a microscopic spear
08/06/25 11:17 from ScienceDaily: Organic Farming News
In a paper published in National Science Review, a Chinese team of scientists highlights the discovery of well-preserved blue-stain fungal hyphae within a Jurassic fossil wood from northeastern China, which pushes back the earliest known...

» Nitrogen loss on sandy shores: The big impact of tiny anoxic pockets
02/06/25 19:53 from ScienceDaily: Organic Farming News
Some microbes living on sand grains use up all the oxygen around them. Their neighbors, left without oxygen, make the best of it: They use nitrate in the surrounding water for denitrification -- a process hardly possible when oxygen is p...

» The EU should allow gene editing to make organic farming more sustainable, researchers say
30/05/25 16:38 from ScienceDaily: Organic Farming News
To achieve the European Green Deal's goal of 25% organic agriculture by 2030, researchers argue that new genomic techniques (NGTs) should be allowed without pre-market authorization in organic as well as conventional food production. NGT...

» Rock record illuminates oxygen history
29/05/25 18:01 from ScienceDaily: Organic Farming News
A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million years before oxygen began to significantly accumulate in the atmosphere, based on nitrogen isotope analysis from ancient South African r...

» Stirling research could extend biopesticide effectiveness
27/05/25 16:43 from ScienceDaily: Organic Farming News
Alterations to the diet of pests could impact how quickly they can adapt to biopesticides.

» The dietary bug in a cancer therapy
21/05/25 17:16 from ScienceDaily: Organic Farming News
A study has uncovered a surprising link between diet, intestinal microbes and the efficacy of cancer therapy.

» Cover crops may not be solution for both crop yield, carbon sequestration
19/05/25 17:15 from ScienceDaily: Organic Farming News
People have assumed climate change solutions that sequester carbon from the air into soils will also benefit crop yields. But a new study finds that most regenerative farming practices to build soil organic carbon -- such as planting cov...

» Dual associations with two fungi improve tree fitness
15/05/25 17:20 from ScienceDaily: Organic Farming News
When trees and soil fungi form close associations with each other, both partners benefit. Many tree species have further enhanced this cooperation by forming a concurrent symbiosis with two different groups of mycorrhizal fungi. Those tr...

» Artificial intelligence and genetics can help farmers grow corn with less fertilizer
14/05/25 20:43 from ScienceDaily: Organic Farming News
Scientists are using artificial intelligence to determine which genes collectively govern nitrogen use efficiency in plants such as corn, with the goal of helping farmers improve their crop yields and minimize the cost of nitrogen fertil...