Recent studies have examined the effects of non-thermal processing on phenolics, flavonoids, anthocyanins, vitamins and overall antioxidant capacity across a range of food matrices. Compared with ...

(Nanowerk News) Soils are rich in many types of microbes. Each species of microbe has a unique set of genes in its genome, but scientists do not know if this diversity affects how plant matter breaks ...

Invasive plants are doing more than just taking over landscapes—they're also changing the soil beneath them. A new study co-authored by Matthew McCary, assistant professor of biosciences at Rice ...

From an animal perspective, elevated microbial pressure drives early microbiome evolution which is foundational to intestinal ...