Microbe Magic
Most soil microbes can be classified as fungi, bacteria, archaea, protozoa, or viruses. It has been estimated that a single gram of soil can contain up to several billion bacteria alone.
In agricultural systems, soil microbes are directly associated with soil carbon because of the essential role they play in residue decomposition and nutrient cycling.
In soils, carbon-based materials include plant litter, compounds released from plant roots, living or dead soil organisms (including microbes), and larger soil fauna like worms and insects, as well as their waste. Collectively, all carbon-based materials, including living things, are known as soil organic matter.
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Like all living things, soil microbes need access to nutrition and water and therefore tend to concentrate near sources of soil organic matter. Microbial biomass and diversity tend to be much higher in soil immediately surrounding plant roots, an area known as the rhizosphere, and other organic matter deposits. Due to their close proximity to plant roots, soil microbes significantly affect soil and crop health. Some of the activities they perform include, nitrogen-fixation, phosphorus solubilization, suppression of pests and pathogens, improvement of plant stress, and decomposition that leads to soil aggregation. However, soil microbes can also be harmful to crops if they cause disease or compete for nutrients
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Mushie Magic
Fungi (singular: fungus) are a kingdom of usually multicellular eukaryotic organisms that are heterotrophs (cannot make their own food) and have important roles in nutrient cycling in an ecosystem. Fungi reproduce both sexually and asexually, and they also have symbiotic associations with plants and bacteria. However, they are also responsible for some diseases in plants and animals.
The study of fungi is known as mycology.
Fungi are made up of tiny threads called mycelium. These travel underground, connecting the roots of different plants in an area, even different species, together, allowing them to communicate and so much more. Some researchers say the trees of the forest and the mushrooms we find growing next to them are so interconnected, that it is hard for them to see trees as individual entities and it is known more these days as the 'Wood Wide Web'.
Stephen Axford lives in the Northern Rivers, NSW and has an international reputation as a specialist in nature photography with a passion in macro fungi photography and an expert in time-lapse photography of fungi.
The diversity of this amazing organism is incredible.
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