Studies in EcoTrons will be increasing in the near future and will provide unprecedented insights into ecosystem functioning; for example, Roscher et al. found that the functional composition of communities is key in explaining carbon assimilation in grasslands. Mesocosms, which we call EcoPODs, are smaller versions of EcoTrons with higher experimental throughput that bridge laboratory and …
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Bacterial colonization efficiency is also critical for successful inoculation
Symbiotic relationships established between plants and bacteria such as rhizobium and some actinomycetes provide most of the nitrogen available to legumes and actinorhizal plant species. A number of studies attempted to develop new association between non legume plants and N fixing bacteria, however, these attempts were mostly unsuccessful . The discovery of endophytic diazotrophs that provided reduced N to …
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