'Soil probiotics' promise bigger, healthier crops, but there's a downside
- Written by Adam Frew, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Charles Sturt University
Crops, soils and fungus are a tricky mix.Jan Kroon, CC BY
More than half the world’s plant-derived energy intake comes from just three crops: rice, wheat and maize. These crops, like most land plants, live in an evolutionarily ancient partnership with a certain type of fungus, called arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
These fungi penetrate...
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