Listen to Gwyn Beattie, professor of bacteriology at Iowa State University and one of the author’s of How Microbes Can Help Feed the World, speak on NPR’s Morning Edition about the potential of microbes as part of the American Academy of Microbiology’s important goal of reducing chemical inputs by 20 percent and increasing crop yields by 20 percent […]
Month: December 2013
Microbes Making a Difference
Microbes continue to earn recognition as critical contributors to the miracle of agriculture. Among the growing body of microbial research is now a study by David Mills, Nicholas Bokulich, and others associated with the University of California at Davis. Their report, entitled Microbial Biogeography of Wine Grapes is Conditioned by Cultivar, Vintage, and Climate, as contributed to […]
