Do you want to know why we are so fascinated by the #symbiosis between #mycorrhizal #fungi and land plants? Have a look at this picture. Left a grassland microcosm inoculated with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and right a microcosm without. Initially they were exactly the same!

We continue to celebrate microbial contaminants here and love seeing what people find growing. Contaminants can be beautiful and interesting - and you never know, maybe your next contaminant could change the world! 🦠🧫💛

📣The oral microbiome: diversity, biogeography and human health He & co. explore the structure and diversity of the oral microbiota, and they discuss the role of the oral microbiota in the pathology of both oral and systemic diseases. read it here: rdcu.be/dlW64

"Simplification of soil biota communities impairs nutrient recycling and enhances above- and belowground nitrogen losses" nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… S. Franz Bender van der Heijden Lab Agroscope Universität Zürich #humus #soillife #soi #agriculture

Academia!! 🙈

"On average, mulching practice reduced runoff by 47.4% and soil loss by 76.2%" sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #humus #soil #agriculture

Construction of a fungal bioreactor (IBC container design). In this video, we present a low-tech method for producing a "soil inoculant" with an extremely high density and diversity of fungi. #regenerativelandwirtschaft #soilfoodweb #humussapiens youtu.be/NAA7ES9uQd8?fe…

Very nice illustration log[lab] :)

We've looked at plenty of food and drinks under the microscope on our channel, but none quite as wild as kombucha. With its complex array of interactions, both predictable and not, kombucha is more like a terrarium than a bottled beverage. 📺: youtu.be/NtkuZ0b5c6A

It may surprise you to know that older bodies of water are much better for finding hotspots of ciliate diversity. Like the old lake in Warsaw, where our master of microscopes found this unique ciliate that hasn't been seen in 90 years. youtu.be/zgjo6fAH16I

Las colonias de este hongo son súper bonitas 🧫 “Penicillium vulpinum”

We are so vastly outnumbered by the many microorganisms in the microcosmos, so what does it mean for a microbe to be "rare"? youtu.be/l4zQWpAyiSk

#Semen has its own #microbiome ... | #microbes | #bacteria | #fertility | #vagina | Via Scientific American scientificamerican.com/article/semen-…

soil microbes act as antidepressants gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/…

"Rotifers chew microplastics. Each rotifer can create between 348,000 -- 366,000 per day, leading to uncountable swarms of nanoparticles in our environment." sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/…

This MITE be the creepiest and crawliest compilation we've ever done. These MITEY organisms are also microscopic and hard to spot. That's how they get away with being everywhere from the rinds of your favorite cheese to the pores of your face. youtu.be/WU3JruoA4TY?si…

New paper out: H.-J. Vogel et al. w/ many colleagues from @BonaRes4u How to adequately represent biological processes in modeling multifunctionality of arable soils #soil #ecology doi.org/10.1007/s00374…

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