We had a guest collector this week. Meet Eugene. He's like this all the time.
Check out the plants! They're starting to tiller.
Field Experiment Week 4
This week the farmer applied some herbicide to try and get rid of some of the weeds in the paddy. We usually collect on Tuesdays, but because he applied the herbicide on Tuesday we had to wait until Thursday to do the collection.
You can see that there are tracks ...
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Three weeks in and the plants are growing like crazy!
There's nothing really special to report this week other than this is the first week that Chris hasn't lost his boot in the mud. Exciting news.
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Field Experiment Week 2
Last week we watched the field being seeded and only collected soil for microbiome analysis. This week the seedlings have germinated.
You can see where we walked out to sample. It was hard work. We bought big rubber boots go go out there, but it's easy to get stuck ...
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Background
Recently we've had some success with taking a network approach for studying microbial consortia. This has been accomplished by using the variation in microbial abundance between rhizocompartments, field sites, and cultivation practice. We found consortia of OTUs belonging to taxonomies with the potential for metabolism of methane (we ...
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