Chemicals produced by soil microbes hold promise as drugs and research tools
Wednesday, December 18, 2019 - 09:40
in Earth & Climate
Charles Boone first set foot in Japan fresh out of undergrad in 1983 when he lived and worked with a local family on a rice farm in Chiba prefecture, just outside Tokyo. There he fell in love with many things Japanese, not least its cuisine which owes much of its flavors to fermenting microorganisms.