Marriage of the mineral world and the organic world: Introduction: How soil forms from rocks and weather -- Plant roots and their bacterial partners -- Plant roots and their fungal partners -- Where ...

Nitrogen changes form as it cycles between air, soil, and life. Soils, for example, emit nitrogen either as inert dinitrogen (N 2), which dominates our atmosphere, or as nitric oxide (NO) or nitrous ...

Using isotope tracing to track ammonium and nitrate uptake, scientists found that wheat dominates nitrogen capture in calcareous (alkaline) soils, while microbes compete more effectively in acid soils ...

On World Soils Day, December 5, 2016, the U.S. National Committee for Soil Sciences convened a workshop on Soils: The Foundation of Life in Washington, DC. The purpose of the workshop was to increase ...