Turning the table: plants consume microbes as a source of nutrients.

Interactions between plants and microbes in soil, the final frontier of ecology, determine the availability of nutrients to plants and thereby primary production of terrestrial ecosystems. Nutrient cycling in soils is considered a battle between autotrophs and heterotrophs in which the latter usuall...

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Main Authors: Chanyarat Paungfoo-Lonhienne, Doris Rentsch, Silke Robatzek, Richard I Webb, Evgeny Sagulenko, Torgny Näsholm, Susanne Schmidt, Thierry G A Lonhienne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2912860?pdf=render