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Soil Foodweb Institute

Locality: Millicent, South Australia

Phone: +61 2 6622 5150

Address: 12 Ridge Terrace 5280 Millicent, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.soilfoodweb.com.au/

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16.05.2022 https://www.sciencealert.com/the-third-leading-cause-of-dea

12.05.2022 https://www.abc.net.au//worm-lasagne-regenerati/100602344

24.01.2022 Dr Vandana Shiva argues that agroecology holds the key to solving the climate and ecological crisis in a just and equitable way. George Monbiot’s recent column, Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming and save the planet, strikes me as a dystopian vision of the future, with no people working the land and humans eating 'fake' food produced in giant industrial factories from microbes. George Monbiot’s recent column, Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming and save the... planet, strikes me as a dystopian vision of the future, with no people working the land and humans eating 'fake' food produced in giant industrial factories from microbes.rld without devouring it. Einstein’s famous quote immediately comes to mind - he warned: We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. https://theecologist.org//rewilding-food-rewilding-farming

23.01.2022 Some interesting information presented by Dr. Zach Bush, discussing aspects with chemical usage. On June 16th, Dr. Zach Bush, a triple-board certified endocrinologist gave a lecture connecting soil health, and the widespread use of pesticides in the US, to the rising rates of chronic disease. https://www.youtube.com/watch

22.01.2022 A Rutgers-led team has discovered how plants harness microbes in soil to get nutrients, a process that could be exploited to boost crop growth, fight weeds and slash the use of polluting fertilizers and herbicides. In a process the team has named the rhizophagy cycle (rhizophagy means root eating), bacteria and fungi cycle between a free-living phase in the soil and a plant-dependent phase within cells of plant roots. Microbes obtain nutrients (nitrogen and minerals) in soi...l, and nutrients are extracted from microbes in the cells of plant roots. Research aimed at combatting Phragmites australis, a tall invasive reed found in wetlands in New Jersey and elsewhere, led to a study published online today in Microorganisms. Co-authors include scientists at Banaras Hindu University in India and the U.S. Geological Survey. https://news.rutgers.edu/how-plants-harness-micro/20180917

22.01.2022 Glyphosate and Roundup Proven to Disrupt Gut Microbiome by Inhibiting Shikimate Pathway. The primary mechanism of how glyphosate herbicides kill plants is by inhibiting an enzyme called EPSPS, which is part of a biochemical pathway known as the shikimate pathway. The shikimate pathway is responsible for the synthesis of certain aromatic amino acids that are vital for the production of proteins, the building blocks of life. Thus when the synthesis of the aromatic amino acids is blocked by glyphosate inhibition of EPSPS, the plant dies. https://sustainablepulse.com//glyphosate-and-roundup-pro/

22.01.2022 Soil and the Gut: Two Ecosystems with a Deep Connection by Force of Nature Nature is full of parallels and deep interconnections. Consider the gut, for example.... The gut, or gastrointestinal tract, comprises the mouth, esophagus, stomach, large intestine, and small intestine and is essentially a long tube through which food travels after we consume it. It doesn’t seem like this collection of organs could possibly have a connection to soil, but it doesa deep one, in fact. https://forceofnaturemeats.com//soil-and-the-gut-two-ecosy

21.01.2022 99 Good News Stories You Probably Didn't Hear About in 2019 If we want to change the story of the human race in the 21st century, we have to change the stories we tell ourselves. https://futurecrun.ch/99-good-news-2019

19.01.2022 Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria promote plant growth by direct and indirect mechanisms. We isolated twelve bacterial strains showing different degrees of phosphate solubilizing activity from maize rhizosphere. https://www.sciencedirect.com//arti/pii/S0944501313001122

18.01.2022 Suppression treatment differentially influences the microbial community and the occurrence of broad host range plasmids in the rhizosphere of the model cover crop Avena sativa L. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article

17.01.2022 This is what we have been saying for over 20 years plus !

16.01.2022 Scientists have wondered for years how legumes such as soybeans, whose roots host nitrogen-fixing bacteria that produce essential plant nutrients out of thin air, are able to recognize these bacteria as both friendly and distinct from their own cells, and how the host plant's specialized proteins find the bacteria and use the nutritional windfall. Now a team of molecular biologists led by Dong Wang at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, working with the alfalfa-clover Medicago truncatula, has found how a gene in the host plant encodes a protein that recognizes the cell membrane surrounding the symbiotic bacteria, then directs other proteins to harvest the nutrients. Details appear online in the January edition of Nature Plants.

15.01.2022 Bacteria found everywhere from the lower atmosphere to the Amazon rainforest may help form ice by manipulating the forces between water molecules, new research suggests. The bacteria, Pseudomonas syringae, use special proteins to alternatingly repel and attract water molecules, squishing the H20 molecules into high- and low-density patches. This patchy organization sort of "confuses" the water molecules so that they form ice at much higher temperatures and under other conditions not normally amenable to freezing, the researchers found. https://www.livescience.com/54517-ice-nucleating-bacteria-e

10.01.2022 It is widely known and accepted that most plants obtain nutrients generally through absorption of dissolved inorganic nutrients from soils [1]. However, it is also known that some plants engage in nitrogen-transfer symbioses where plants associate with prokaryotes that fix nitrogen in association with roots and transfer that nitrogen to plants [2,3]. Among these nitrogen-transfer symbioses are actinorhizal symbioses that occur in three orders of plants (Fagales, Rosales and C...ucurbitales) where roots may become inter-cellularly and intra-cellularly colonized by diazotrophic actinomycetes of the genus Frankia that inhabit nodules in roots [2]. Families of plants where actinorhizal symbioses are common include: Betulaceae, Elaeagnaceae, Fagaceae, Myricaceae, Rosaceae and so forth [4]. Other nitrogen-transfer symbioses are the rhizobial symbioses where certain diazotrophic bacteria infect root hairs and move into the root cortex where they become intracellular and stimulate formation of nodules; bacteria then situate in the cytoplasm of nodule cells in vesicles and transfer nitrogen to plants in the form of ammonia [5,6]. Rhizobial symbioses are limited principally to legumes (family Fabaceae) [5]. In some plants, diazotrophic cyanobacteria form nitrogen transfer associations with plant tissues where they fix nitrogen and transfer it to the plant [4]. Among these are species of the genus Gunnera that possess specialized glands that secrete polysaccharides to attract cyanobacteria, which enter into tissues of the stem and become intracellular within host cell vesicles where they fix nitrogen that is subsequently transferred to the host plant [4]. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/6/3/95/htm

10.01.2022 A recent visit with a client in NSW. This client has 120 acres of glasshouses growing up to 30 varieties of tomatoes.

07.01.2022 Campaigner and environmentalist Dr. Rosemary Mason has written an open letter to the Chief Medical Officer of England, Sally Davies. In it, Mason states that none of the more than 400 pesticides that have been authorised in the UK have been tested for long-term actions on the brain: in the foetus, in children or in adults. The UK Department of Health (DoH) has previously stated that pesticides are not its concern. But, according to Mason, they should be. https://off-guardian.org//uk-govt-ignore-pesticides-as-c/

06.01.2022 https://www.theage.com.au//world-first-biodiversity-scheme

06.01.2022 Rooftops covered with grass, vegetable gardens and lush foliage are now a common sight in many cities around the world. More and more private companies and city authorities are investing in green roofs, drawn to their wide-ranging benefits which include savings on energy costs, mitigating the risk from floods, creating habitats for urban wildlife, tackling air pollution and urban heat and even producing food. A recent report in the UK suggested that the green roof market there is expanding at a rate of 17% each year. The world’s largest rooftop farm will open in Paris in 2020, superseding similar schemes in New York City and Chicago. Stuttgart, in Germany, is thought of as the green roof capital of Europe, while Singapore is even installing green roofs on buses. http://theconversation.com/green-roofs-improve-the-urban-en

06.01.2022 Great course and really good mix of attendees.

05.01.2022 Final day of our Course. Next one to be held is looking like early Feb 2020, hope to see you all there :)

04.01.2022 Co-inoculation with phosphate-solubilzing and nitrogen-fixing bacteria on solubilization of rock phosphate and their effect on growth promotion and nutrient uptake by walnut plants. https://www.sciencedirect.com///abs/pii/S1164556312000052

02.01.2022 Redox potential (Eh) and pH as drivers of soil/plant/microorganism systems: a transdisciplinary overview pointing to integrative opportunities for agronomy https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11104-012-1429-7

02.01.2022 Scientists recently found one billion-year-old fungi in Canada, changing the way we view evolution and the timing of plants and animals here on Earth. The fossilized specimen was collected in Canada's Arctic by an international team and later identified to be the oldest fungi ever found, sitting somewhere between 900 million and 1 billion years old. The research, published recently in Nature, changes how we view eukaryotes colonizing the land. The fossilized fungi were analyz...ed and researchers found the presence of chitin, a unique substance that is found on the cell walls of fungi. The specimen was then age dated using precise measurements of radioactive isotope ratios within the sample. https://www.forbes.com//scientists-find-one-billion-year/