Plants actively change the chemical compounds they release through their root systems (root exudates), which serve as signals that attract specific species of soil microbes while discouraging others; different crops recruit different microbial communities, and even within the same crop, these microbial partnerships shift throughout the growing season, with these beneficial microbes being referred to as plant-growth-promoting bacteria.
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This is something I found really interesting as I've spent some time and studied this is that the plants can change what is being released below ground and as it changes its exudates it can recruit different species of microbiology. I think that is absolutely amazing. And so what we find is as we recruit these different species that are going to be specific to the plants that we're growing, so specific to the corn, right, the specialty market, it's going to be different if as we're looking at each one of those, they're recruiting specific microbiology for specific times. And a lot of times we call these plant growthpromoting bacteria. Well, what does that tell
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