Heaving with microbes, worms, fungi and insects, it’s a hive of activity right ... do the important work of eating dead plants and animals. There are also some soil bacteria that eat actual rock. It’s ...

Wetter, moldier environments attract brown worms; balance soil moisture to prevent infestations ... or decomposing plant or animal matter like bacteria and fungi. In addition, you’re likely ...

This article will review the critical biogeochemical processes occurring at the plant root-soil interface ... Rhizobia bacteria and their symbiotic plant partners, mychorrhizal fungi associations ...

Out of concern about crop losses, the worms are conventionally ... especially as Mortierella fungi are often associated with healthy soil. “Mortierella has long been used in biotechnology ...

Worms, Darwin concluded, did not merely move soil around ... are joined together by a vast network of fungi, so that a plant attacked by a pest or fungal disease can dial up exactly the microbe or ...

Micro-organisms (bacteria and fungi) either come in naturally from ... but of cultivating good soil. Worms are brilliant at making compost. Find out more from our worm article and make your ...

How stiff or flexible are the materials? How strong or slimy? Record your findings. Living things in the soil — mainly bacteria, fungi, and worms — break down complex materials like plants into ...

How did we get to a place where we think of soil as dirt? Soils are buzzing with life, criss-crossed with a hard-to-fathom ...

But the research is unlikely to lead to massive worm farms that double as recycling ... other researchers have had success in using bacteria and fungi to break down plastics.