Increasing crop yields and ensuring food security is a major global challenge. In order to
increase crop production, chemical fertilizers and pesticides are excessively used. However …

Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) has become an increasingly utilized tool in
biologically relevant studies. Of these, high lateral resolution methodologies using the …

Manganese is one of the most abundant elements on Earth. The oxidation of manganese
has long been theorized—yet has not been demonstrated,–—to fuel the growth of …

Symbiotic N2-fixing microorganisms have a crucial role in the assimilation of nitrogen by
eukaryotes in nitrogen-limited environments,–. Particularly among land plants, N2-fixing …

The oxidation of methane with sulfate is an important microbial metabolism in the global
carbon cycle. In marine methane seeps, this process is mediated by consortia of anaerobic …

So far, only members of the bacterial phyla Proteobacteria and Verrucomicrobia are known
to grow methanotrophically under aerobic conditions. Here we report that this metabolic trait …

Emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from marine sediments are controlled by
anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled primarily to sulphate reduction (AOM). Sulphate …

Symbioses between nitrogen (N) 2–fixing prokaryotes and photosynthetic eukaryotes are
important for nitrogen acquisition in N-limited environments. Recently, a widely distributed …

Ethane is the second most abundant component of natural gas in addition to methane, and—
similar to methane—is chemically unreactive. The biological consumption of ethane under …

The photosynthetic cyanobacterium Trichodesmium is widely distributed in the surface low
latitude ocean where it contributes significantly to N2 fixation and primary productivity …