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Ep. 423 - Plant-Microbe Interactions are Complex

In Defense of Plants Podcast

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The Importance of Microbial Community Assembly

There used to be this I don't know if you'd call it a hypothesis this thing that people would talk about a lot in microbial ecology, which is everything is everywhere and the environment is less. And so now we know that that's not the case not microbial dispersal is not universal if they can't be everywhere all the time. It really depends on kind of their dispersal structures right? So these are fungi for example that have kind of larger spores,. then you might expect for soil dwelling fungi so they have relatively large spores. These spores because they're in the soil they don't necessarily always get blown up to the air or get kicked up as dust. Even if they do get

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