Sítio Escola Portão Grande hosted students from the Mentoring and Language Acquisition Program (MLAB) for a full-day immersion at a farm in Brazil that included soil testing with microBIOMETER. MLAB serves Harvard students and Brazilian high school students.
The graph shows the ratio of fungi to bacteria as a characteristic of a system. The article says grasslands and agricultural soils usually have bacterial-dominated food webs, with most biomass in bacteria.
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) colonize 80% of crops. Their effects on plant growth vary with crop species and genotype, AMF species, and soil characteristics.
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