MADISON — In the rogues' gallery of microscopic infectious agents, the prion is the toughest hombre in town. Warped pathogens that lack both DNA and RNA, prions are believed to cause such fatal brain ...

It wasn’t too many years ago that in October and November, we could smell the smoke from burning leaves almost every day. Gardeners who knew about the potential benefits of those leaves were ...

One of the most common is Trichoderma, which appears as white fuzzy clumps. Blue, yellow, and orange spots are also likely to be various types of saprophytic ... strange-colored spot on the soil is ...

Researchers have unveiled a surprising new way that soil microbes can use sunlight energy—even after the lights go out. A team from Kunming University of Science and Technology and the University of ...

Relative efficiency of five chemical extractante for the extraction of available Zn in four different soils and its uptake by rice seedlings was studied in a pot culture experiment. The Zn extracted ...

Thinning, the practice of removing some trees to promote the growth of others, is a common forestry management technique, but ...