Fertilizer destroys plant microbiome’s ability to protect against disease
Submitted by mjalbe on Fri, 07/27/2018 - 13:30New research coming out of Assistant Professor Britt Koskella's lab found that spraying tomatoes with microbes from healthy tomatoes protected them from disease-causing bacteria, but that fertilizing the tomatoes beforehand negated the protection, leading to an increase in the population of pathogenic microbes on the plants’ leaves. Read more...