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BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

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Microbiology - Is the Soil a Community of Things?

There's probably more species of bacteria in a centinete cube of soil than there are plants on the planet. Some of those bacteria are bad, but some of them are really, really good. Plants can send out signals into the soil to say, hey, i want this type of bacterium and i will give you the particular resource that you need to survive. And then when the microizer and the bacteria do colonize, they send messages to tell the plant that they're friendly. They're not pasagens. So we have this this deafening conversation,. if you so i'm a micro biologist and a biological chemist, so my interests are trying to eavesdrop on those chemical

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