Re: [compost_tea] Re: Some Numbers and Metabolites

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 17:39:33 EST

In a message dated 11/1/2004 11:59:44 AM Pacific Standard Time,
kirkleon_at_open.org writes:
And on "metabolites" - a completely different subject - a wonderful word but
still a fuzzy concept to me...
Metabolites are any material made by an physiologically active organism. A
product of metabolism.

Which means a metabolite could be just about anything organic, since all
organic matter is the result of organism processing.

So what use is the word? Applied specifically, it is useful to denote a
material that results from organism processing.

Elaine R. Ingham
Soil Foodweb Inc., Corvallis, Oregon
Soil Foodweb Inc., Port Jefferson, New York
Soil Foodweb Institute, Lismore Australia
Soil Foodweb Institute Cambridge, New Zealand
Laboratorios de Soil Foodweb, Culiacan, Mexico
Soil Foodweb Inc., Jerome, Idaho
Soil Foodweb Inc., South Africa







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