Researchers offer new and novel paradigm for advancing research on beneficial microbes
Tuesday, July 25, 2017 - 02:32
in Biology & Nature
While beneficial microbes are becoming a more common tool in agriculture, their effectiveness in the field is severely blunted thanks to real-world environmental stressors like heat and drought, competition with other microbes, and interactions with the host plant. Such factors can reduce the treatment's effectiveness or even drive the microbe to extinction.