Every gardener knows that when the weather warms, it's weed-killing season. Weeds can harm your garden and lawn and steal nutrients your precious plants need. On top of that, they take away from the ...

Biologists working with the alfalfa-clover Medicago truncatula, has found how a gene in the host plant encodes a protein that recognizes the cell membrane surrounding the symbiotic bacteria, then ...

Mulch vs membrane? It’s the gardening equivalent of Shakespeare’s “To be or not to be?”, quite frankly, because while many weeds have undergone something of a press makeover (some of them are now “it” ...

AMHERST, Mass. - Scientists have wondered for years how legumes such as soybeans, whose roots host nitrogen-fixing bacteria that produce essential plant nutrients out of thin air, are able to ...