Monday, October 12, 2020

For when the chips are down—preserving UK soil microbial biodiversity for agriculture

Scientists from the UK's foremost agricultural research institutes have teamed up to create a new UK Crop Microbiome Cyrobank (UK-CMCB) to safeguard future research and facilitate the sustainable yield improvement of the UK's six major food crops including barley, oats, oil seed rape, potato, sugar beet and wheat.

source https://phys.org/news/2020-10-chips-downpreserving-uk-soil-microbial.html