Some aspects of current fundamental nematological research and teaching in agriculture, soil zoology, biology and medicine, and parasitology are explored as they relate to the Society of Nematologists and the science of nematology in its broadest sense.

Soil classifiers have taken their lead from biologists but have not produced an internationally accepted system even though the WRB is supported by the IUSS. More recently Mazaheri et al. (1995a, 1995b) have tried to introduce Fuzzy logic into soil classification. They achieved a small amount of success when their technique was applied to selected soils in Australia but failed when applied to o...

Photosynthetic assimilation of atmospheric carbon dioxide by land plants offers the underpinnings for terrestrial carbon (C) sequestration. A proportion of the C captured in plant biomass is partitioned to roots, where it enters the pools of soil organic C and soil inorganic C and can be sequestered for millennia. Bioenergy crops serve the dual role of providing biofuel that offsets fossil-fuel...

The MOx instrument was developed to characterize the reactive nature of the martian soil. The objectives of MOx were: (1) to measure the rate of degradation of organics in the martian environment; (2) to determine if the reactions seen by the Viking biology experiments were caused by a soil oxidant and measure the reactivity of the soil and atmosphere: (3) to monitor the degradation, when expos...

Streptomyces is a group of soil bacteria of medicinal, economic, ecological, and industrial importance. It is renowned for its complex biology in gene regulation, antibiotic production, morphological differentiation, and stress response. In this review, we provide an overview of the recent advances in Streptomyces biology inspired by -omics based high throughput technologies. In this post-genom...

James L. Heilman,* Marcy E. Litvak, Kevin J. McInnes, James F. Kjelgaard, Ray H. Kamps and Susanne Schwinning 1 Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2474, USA 2 Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131-0001, USA 3 Natural Resources Conservation Service, Corpus Christi, TX 78410-4466, USA 4 Department of Biology, Tex...

Rakesh K. Kumar, Heng-Hsuan Chu, Celina Abundis, Kenneth Vasques, David Chan Rodriguez, Ju-Chen Chia, Rong Huang, Olena K. Vatamaniuk, and Elsbeth L. Walker Plant Biology Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 Soil and Crop Sciences Section, School of Integrative Plant Sciences,...

Elke Ströher, Julia Grassl, Chris Carrie, Ricarda Fenske, James Whelan, and A. Harvey Millar ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, M316, Faculty of Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, 6009 Western Australia, Australia (E.S., J.G., C.C., R.F., A.H.M.); and ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Department of Animal, Plant and Soil Science, School of Life...

State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China (S.Y., H.Z., H.G., W.F., T.C., D.K., H.K., Z.Z.); State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, National Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Datun Road, Beijing 100101, China (L.L., Q.X.); and Department of Plant, Soil, and ...

Joshua Linn, Meiyan Ren, Oliver Berkowitz, Wona Ding, Margaretha J. van der Merwe, James Whelan, and Ricarda Jost Department of Animal, Plant, and Soil Sciences, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, VIC 3083, Australia College of Science and Technology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211 Zhejia...