Soil Food Web – Predator-Prey Protists Bacteria Fungi Microarthropods in an Aerobic Environment
Soil Food web – Predator-Prey Protists Bacteria Fungi Microarthropods are some of the main components in soil microbiology. Below is a predator/Prey food/eating chart. Arrows indicate who is eating what. Some of the food materials are organic (meaning they contain some carbon), while other organisms are eating inorganic materials (like NO3, NO and etc…) The tangled [...]
Microbiology For Leaves -Video
How disease suppression on leaves works is no secret. On the leave surface, each leave cell has many ports where fungi and bacteria can connect to. This is a normal process for plants. Good and bad fungi can connect. Good and bad bacteria can connect. Each micro organism takes up a connecting ”portal” on the leave [...]
Rhizopogon villosullus
. Rhizopogon villosullus is an ectomycorrhizal and play an important role in the ecology of coniferous forests.
Gigaspora monosporum
Gigaspora monosporum is an Endomycorrhizal fungi used as a soil inoculant in agriculture and horticulture. Its purpose is to increase the surface area of roots for nutrient absorption.
Gigaspora brasilianum
Gigaspora brasilianum is an Endomycorrhizal fungi used as a soil inoculant in agriculture and horticulture. Its purpose is to increase the surface area of roots for nutrient absorption.
Glomus etunicatum
Glomus etunicatum is apparently quite common for tomatos. The fungus has been found in Illinois, Missouri, Florida, and in the Chihuahuan and Sonoran Deserts in North America. G. etunicatum is widespread in the Eastern United States. It has also been found in the Namib Desert in Africa, which suggests that the fungus is indeed widespread. [...]
Glomus deserticola
Glomus deserticola behaved as a ‘mycorrhiza helper microorganism’ enhancing mycorrhization of tomato roots. These results indicate that dual inoculation with an AM fungus and a P-solubilizing microorganism co-entrapped in alginate can be an efficient technique for plant establishment and growth in nutrient deficient soils.
Glomus clarum
Glomus clarum is an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus used as a soil inoculant in agriculture and horticulture. Its purpose is to increase the surface area of roots for nutrient absorption. The beneficial effect of the mycorrhizal symbiosis on the water status of tomato plants stimulated plant growth.
Glomus aggregatum
Glomus aggregatum is an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus used as a soil inoculant in agriculture and horticulture. Its purpose is to increase the surface area of roots for nutrient absorption.
Glomus mosseae
Glomus mosseaeis an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus used as a soil inoculant a in agriculture and horticultur like soybeans and Cannabis Satvia. It fixes nitrogen for legumes and it helps take up metals out of soils for Cannabis Satvia.
Glomus intraradices
Glomus intraradices is an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus used as a soil inoculant a in agriculture and horticulture. Its purpose is to increase the surface area of roots for nutrient absorption. In addition, it is one of the best mycorrhizal varieties of fungi available to mycoforestry. Mycoforestry is an ecological forest management system implemented to enhance forest [...]
Paenibacillus durum (formaly Clostridium durum)
Paenibacillus durum (formaly Clostridium durum) was described by Smith and Cat as the dominant organism in a sediment core from the Black Sea. It digests it and produces NO2. Paenibacillus durum is important in established older gardens where there is a higher count of Protozoan and Nematodes. It fixes nitrogen from NH4 as part of [...]
Bacillus stearothermophilus
Bacillus stearothermophilus is a thermophile and is widely distributed in soil, hot springs, ocean sediment, and is a cause of spoilage in food products. It will grow within a temperature range of 30-75 degrees Celsius. It appears in compost piles at the hot part of the cycle.
Bacillus thuringiensis
Bacillus thuringiensis Bacillus thuringiensis (or Bt) is a soil-dwelling bacterium, commonly used as a biological alternative to a pesticide; alternatively, the Cry toxin may be extracted and used as a pesticide. They are now used as specific insecticides under trade names such as Dipel and Thuricide. B. thuringiensis also occurs naturally in the gut of [...]
Bacillus pumlis
Bacillus pumilus strain GB34 is a naturally occurring bacterium that is especially common in soil and on dead plant tissue. When applied to soybean seeds, the bacterium protects the roots of the soybean plant against certain fungi. No harm to humans or the environment is expected from use of Bacillus pumilus strain GB34 as a [...]
Bacillus coagulans
Bacillus coagulans Bacillus coagulans is a lactic acid-forming bacterial species within the genus Bacillus. The organism was first isolated and described in 1932 and was elaborated in the fifth edition of Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology. It’s purpose in soil is to secrete organic acids which dissolve phosphate into a soluble form and make it [...]
Streptomyces griseus
Streptomyces griseus Streptomyces griseus is a member bacterial species of the genus Streptomyces and are commonly found in soil. It is also called Actinomyces griseus. It produces Streptomycin, which is an antibiotic drug, the first of a class of drugs called aminoglycosides to be discovered, and was the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis. And it [...]
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a species of budding yeast. It is perhaps the most useful yeast owing to its use since ancient times in baking and brewing. It is believed that it was originally isolated from the skins of grapes (one can see the yeast as a component of the thin white film on the skins of [...]
Bacillus megaterium
Bacillus megaterium Bacillus Megaterium is a Gram-positive, rod shaped Endospore-forming Bacteria. They are assumed to play a significant role in the biological cycles of carbon and nitrogen. It is considered Aerobic, but, it is also capable of growing under anaerobic conditions when necessary. One of the largest Eubacteria found in soil, and hence the name “mega” [...]
Azotobacter chroococcum
Azotobacter chroococum is one of many nitrogen fixing species of bacteria found in soils and plants. Their purpose is to take food from the plant through the roots, eat it, change it to a protein. Once the protean is released, nitrifying bacteria covert it to a Nitrate. Nitrate is fixed nitrogen. It is the same [...]
Bacillus polymyxa
Bacillus polymyxa takes released (NH4) from Protozoan and Nematodes. It digests it and produces NO2. Bacillus polymyxa is important in established older gardens where there is a higher count of Protozoan and Nematodes. It fixes nitrogen from NH4 as part of the predator/prey nitrogen cycle. Download paper (.pdf) Click here to learn more?
Bacillus licheniformis
Bacillus licheniformis B. licheniformis produces a variety of extracellular enzymes that are associated with the cycling of nutrients in nature. It is an apathogenic soil organism that is mostly associated with plant and plant materials in nature. Although it is most common to isolate this bacterium from is soil, it is believed that B. licheniformis [...]
Bacillus subtilus
Bacillus subtilus They allow for the control of plant pathogen infections. B. subtilis biofilm communities form a mutualistic interaction with plant rhizome systems. The plant benefits because B. subtilis provides preemptive colonization. Preemptive colonization prevents other pathogens from infecting the plant because B. subtilis has the advantage of being at the site first. The main [...]