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December 17, 2012

Fertile soil doesn't fall from the sky
Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2012
Remains of dead bacteria have far greater meaning for soils than previously assumed. Around 40 per cent of the microbial biomass is converted to organic soil components, write researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), the Technische Universitat Dresden (Technical University of Dresden) , the University of Stockholm, the Max-Planck-Institut fur Entwicklungsbiologie (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology) and the Leibniz-Universitat Hannover (Leibniz University Hanno ... read more

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