Re: [compost_tea] IMOs, KNFA, soil species diversity

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 23:33:14 EDT

We work with researchers at Cornell University - Janice Thies for one. We
also work with people at Southern Cross University in New South Wales, in
Australia.

They of course work with many other people, so the network is pretty good.

There's a company in Australia, Vistoria I think, offering DNA analysis of
soil. They are looking specifically at the pathogens, and the cost is $75
Australian. So the ability to do diversity using realistic methods is happening.
SFI hopes to offer the molecular approach once it gets to be a reasonable
price. We have people working on these methods. Just keep your eyes peeled
with respect to who will be first!

Um, we will be putting together a CD on how to do tea assessment using a $350
small microscope. This is just for tea (can't do leaf surface yet), and only
for relative numbers of bacteria, fungi and protozoa. The activity work and
leaf surface assessment is yet to come.

Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com
SFI Oregon, USA
SFI Australia
SFI New York
SFI Europe
SFI New Zealand

"Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well,
but the conviction that what we are doing makes sense, no matter how things
turn out." -- Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic





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