Thursday October 29th, 2009

Guest Blog – Frederick Dobbs On Mycorrhizae

As gardeners, we often think of the soil as little more than something that holds up plants to which we sometimes need to add water and a little fertilizer. We forget its complexity and the universes within universes that it contains. Mycorrhizae, the associations between plant roots and fungi, is one of those universes. When […]

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Monday October 12th, 2009

Guest Blog – Frederick Dobbs On Soil Salinity

Norman Borlaug died recently (12 September 2009) at the age of 95. Borlaug began life as an Iowa farm boy, was trained as a plant pathologist at the University of Minnesota, and went on to direct some of the most important plant breeding efforts of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize […]

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