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

From: dkemnitz2000 <dkemnitz2000_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 03:58:59 -0000

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


><><><<><><><><>Alright!!!!!When do we start? Do we get to stain our
fingers and trousers too? Dennis






  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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