Fungal to Bacterial Ratios for Soil Health + The Death of Curiosity

Sep 26, 2025

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Welcome to episode 246 of Growers Daily!

We cover: fungal to bacterial ratios for soil health and whether it means anything for you, we discuss the death of curiosity, and it's feed back friday

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-Studies demonstrate that accurate measurement is really only conducted through phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) tests, but even those are not necessarily consistent across labs. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00374-025-01911-7

-Higher fungi are associated with longer term carbon storage, sometimes disease and pest suppression as well, whereas high levels of bacteria are commonly associated with nutrient availability. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0038071702000330

-There tends to be a higher fungi to bacteria ratio in forests and undisturbed soils, whereas bacteria often thrive in disturbance.

-" some studies have suggested that fungi are more important to soil fertility in acidic soils, while bacteria are more important to soil fertility in alkaline soils (Sun et al., 2016; Han et al., 2021)" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0929139323002019

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