Metagenomes from prairie soils in Kansas, USA, show how historical exposure to water stress impacts soil microorganisms and subsequently drought responses in plants.

The new law will ensure soil is monitored in all EU countries and farmers get better support to improve soil health and soil resilience.

Background High-throughput sequencing technologies have greatly advanced our understanding of microbiomes, but resolving microbial communities at species and strain levels remains challenging. Results...

The Agrobiology and Soil Management Group (University of Barcelona) invites applications for a 12-month postdoctoral position (part-time, 0.5 FTE) focused on developing and validating machine learning...

The rhizosphere microbiome plays crucial roles in plant health by regulating nutrient cycling and enhancing stress resilience. However, due to its com…

Crop health is improved by abundance of beneficial soil fungal genera and reduced by abundance of soil fungal pathogens, according to analysis of satellite-derived normalized difference vegetation ind...

Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) is a foundation of soil health and global climate resilience, yet its prediction remains difficult because of intricate physical, chemical, and biological processes. In this ...

The Faculty of Science is looking for a full professor or assistant/associate professor (tenure track) in Plant Ecology. The aim of the professorship is to strengthen scientific research and education...

AgroLLM is an AI-powered chatbot designed to enhance knowledge-sharing and education in agriculture using Large Language Models (LLMs) and a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) framework. By using a ...

This study introduces a microbiome-integrated machine learning framework to predict soil suppressiveness against Rhizoctonia solani, a destructive fun…

Authors discuss the potential of conserving crop wild relatives, together with the associated communities of microorganisms, to unlock strategies for improving crop resilience and achieving food secur...

Abstract. The increasing demand for sustainable agricultural practices has driven a renewed interest in plant–microbiome interactions as a basis for the ne

Crop health is improved by abundance of beneficial soil fungal genera and reduced by abundance of soil fungal pathogens, according to analysis of satellite-derived normalized difference vegetation ind...

Crop associations (CAs), the cultivation of multiple crop species together as intercrops, offer significant benefits for sustainable agriculture. However, a major bottleneck for broader adoption is the lack of CA-oriented cultivar testing and breeding.For more than fifty years in Switzerland, varieties have undergone testing not only in pure but also in mixed stands, and thus provided a rare example of integrating CAs in an official variety testing scheme. The primary objective is to gain insights into the competitive strength of the tested varieties. This information holds particular significance in the formulation of clover-grass mixtures, as over 90% of cultivated fields in Switzerland, dedicated to meadows and pastures, have traditionally been sown with clover-grass mixtures. This longstanding practice reflects the agricultural importance attached to understanding the interplay between different varieties in mixed cropping systems. As part of a mini paper on “Cultivar testing as a key to boost uptake of crop associations in breeding and farming” (see related EU CAP Focus Group output at https://eu-cap-network.ec.europa.eu/focus-group-crop-associations-including-milpa-and-protein-crops_en), an interview with Dr. Daniel Suter, Head of Variety Testing for Forage Crops in Switzerland, delved into the intricacies of forage crop variety testing and its implications for agricultural practices and breeding strategies. The purpose of this interview is to provide valuable information that might help to transfer this successful application of CA cultivar testing to forage crop testing schemes in other countries and possibly extrapolate insights to other cultivation systems such as arable farming.

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@kevinweil: 💥 I’m starting something new inside OpenAI! It’s called OpenAI for Science, and the goal is to build the next great scientific instrument: an AI-powered platform that accelerates scientifi...