Showing posts with label biofertilizer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biofertilizer. Show all posts

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Crops Should Get High On Magic Mushrooms!


What do bacteria, fungi, and cyanobacteria all have in common?

They are all microorganisms currently being researched as possible biofertilizers

More specifically, scientists are attempting to isolate phosphate-solubilizing microorganisms. They hope that these microorganisms will be able to mobilize the insoluble phosphate found in our crop soil.
Ok, that sounds easy enough. So what’s the holdup?


Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Amazing Paper Written by Two Graduate Students. Go Figure



Now this is a research paper.

In order to get my point across about the previous paper being innovative but lacking technique, I found another research article in the World Microbiology Biotechnology Journal that does things right.It covers the same type pf research with the same type of solubilizing bacteria. 


Monday, October 4, 2010

Let's Ask the Soil




It makes sense right? Scientists are always talking about how the problem is not that we do not have enough phosphorus; the problem is that most of what we have is unavailable to plants. Ok… so let’s just transform the phosphorus we have into a form plants can use and call it a day...