[compost_tea] Re: soil versus compost diversity

From: dkemnitz2000 <dkemnitz2000_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:56:43 -0000

--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, soilfoodweb_at_a... wrote:

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> compost. Humans have named only 5,000 species of bacteria, less
than that of
>
Dr. Ingham you just answered one of my next questions:How do you know
there are 25,000 species of bacteria present in a gram of healthy
soil ? Or am I assuming something I shouldn't here? Seems like
they're named when identified (like after the researcher). Dennis









 fungi. Current DNA anlysis suggests that there may be millions of
species of
> bacteria in the world, and tens of thousands of species in any gram
of soil. We
> can culture, or grow, only a drop in the bucket of the enormous
number of
> species of bacteria and fungi that exist in any soil.
>
>

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