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Blog BLOG – Harnessing the soil microbiome for crop health
Pick up a handful of soil and you’d be holding many millions of tiny microbes. These organisms may be microscopic but their impact on plants and agriculture is enormous. Microbes like bacteria, viruses and fungi might make us think of infections we’ve had, or mouldy fruit and vegetables. However, microbes aren’t all bad. We now understand that microbes in the soil (collectively known as the soil microbiome) are key partners in plant health and agriculture. Naturally occurring soil bacteria protect plants against disease, and improve plant growth. With global agriculture facing the...
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Press Release Rings of power – how bacteria use circadian clocks to colonise their world
Research has revealed how bacteria rely on circadian clocks to control the spread of their multi-cellular colonies
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News Symbiotic partner-swapping or long-term fidelity? The secrets of partnership success between beetles and bacteria
Some insects and microbes develop symbiotic partnerships, which become so interdependent that they can no longer survive without each other. But how specific are these heritable symbioses? Is it possible for the same species of bacteria to flourish across different species of insect hosts, or are these partnerships more fixed, honed over millions of years of...
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