It's not just humans that rely on a healthy microbiome. Plants do too - and just as researchers have started coming up with treatments to heal the human microbiome, companies are now doing the ...

Here the authors discuss the use of synthetic communities, or SynComs, in plant–microbiome research and propose steps to develop community standards that will support future research.

Its goal is to better understand the gut microbiome in health and disease. “They discovered that participants who ate 30 or more different types of plants per week had gut microbiomes that were ...

She mixes Greek yogurt or kefir, which contain live cultures that help support the microbiome, with oats. Morse aims to get at least 10 plant foods into her first meal of the day, including nuts ...

Registered dietitian nutritionist Carrie Dennett explains a debate about whether diet or environment has the biggest impact ...

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

Ralstonia solanacearum is a soil-borne pathogen that devastates tomato and other Solanaceae crops globally. Traditional ...