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Improving Soil to Improve Taste

Harry Klee, a researcher at the University of Florida published insights into improving tomato flavor in a 2012 article in Current Biology. Klee believes good tomato flavor is a complex panorama of sugars, acids, and mysterious gassy chemicals that we experience as smell. Klee and his colleagues are still identifying those “aroma volatiles.”  Reviewing 152 …

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Scientific American, Citing FAO Study, Only 60 Years of Farming Left If Soil Degradation Continues

Since you are here, reading about SymSoil™ you probably already know that life as we know it is dependent upon the top six inches of the planet. The key message was alarming: Unless new approaches are adopted, the global amount of arable and productive land per person in 2050 will be only a quarter of the level …

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NPR Discusses Soil Microbe Genes

NPR’s Dan Charles, on All Things Considered/Food For Thought talks to scientists about soil microfauna.  These scientists are focused on understanding and describing the most common ones. They miss the point.  There are more than a billion different species in a handful of healthy soil.  Finding a small number of “important ones” does not replace the …

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