Top-performing soil microbes could be key to sustainable agriculture
Tuesday, August 7, 2018 - 12:30
in Biology & Nature
Beautiful things can happen when plants surround themselves with the right microbes. A study on Acmispon strigosus, a plant in the pea family, showed a 13-fold growth increase in plants that partnered with a highly effective strain of the nitrogen-fixing bacteria Bradyrhizobium.