[Link] Microbiology is the next big thing in ag innovation
Drones, sensors, optical scanners and robots already are part of the tree fruit industry, helping boost yields, assure quality and streamline costs.
Tag: microbiology
[Link] Time after Time: Temporal Variation in the Effects of Grass and Forb Species on Soil Bacterial and Fungal Communities
Our findings highlight how soil fungal and bacterial communities respond to time, season, and plant species identity. We found that succession shapes …
[Link] Better Living Through … Biology?
The microbe – in plants, soil, food, insect and animal guts and even in our own guts – has now become one of the hottest areas for innovation and …
Impacts of glyphosate residue on seed germination
Some new research1 describes the impact of pre-emerge glyphosate applications on seedling development and yields, and the impact of prior year appplications. The conclusion: you…
Effective Seed Treatments
For direct-seeded crops, seed treatments are the least expensive and highest return application a grower can apply. Seed treatments can contain bacterial inoculants, fungal inoculants,…
Disease suppression of wheat take-all disease
The presence of soil-borne disease infection is not correlated to the presence of an infectious organism, but to the absence of suppressive microbes. Here is…
Terminating cover crops with glyphosate
For those who are yet undecided, Evidence continues to accumulate regarding the pronounced negative effect of glyphosate on soil health, and how it leads to…
Spring applied planter solution products influence end of season cover crops
This is a field in Pennsylvania in December 2019. It appears the section on the left has less residue, and possibly more cover crop growth.…
Redox as a driver of soil/plant/microorganism systems
Contemporary mechanistic agriculture has been based largely on the development of genetics and chemistry. The regenerative agriculture systems emphasize the development of biology and biophysics.…
Bacterial resilience to antibiotics
Antibiotics were first discovered being produced by a soil-borne fungus. We have identified many different antibiotics that are made by plants and fungus, and even…
