Like nitrogen and phosphorus, sulfur follows a cycle in which it moves from the organic form, which plants cannot use, to the inorganic form, which they can take up, and back again. “Organic ...

Elemental Sulfur: This form can’t be used by plants, as it must be mineralized into sulfate. Only a small amount is mineralized naturally, depending on soil organic matter. Farm Journal Editor ...

A modular metabolism may explain the environmental success of certain sulphate-reducing bacteria. This is the result of a study published this week in the journal Science Advances. A research team led ...

These bacteria use sulfate rather than oxygen for respiration, and they harvest only a fraction of the energy that aerobic bacteria can extract from the degradation of organic substances.