An international research team has discovered that comammox bacteria, first identified by them in 2015, can grow using guanidine, a nitrogen-rich organic compound, as their sole energy and nitrogen ...

An international research team led by Aalborg University with contributions from the University of Vienna has systematically mapped the microbiome of an entire country for the first time. In the study ...

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 ...

In the study “Microflora Danica,” published in the renowned journal Nature, over 10,000 environmental samples from across Denmark were analyzed - on average at intervals of only around 4 square ...