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Fostering Microbial Activity and Diversity in Agricultural Systems

March 26, 2025
Fostering microbial diversity
Fostering microbial diversity

This three-part series focuses on fostering microbial activity and diversity through better management practices and strategies. Part 1 discusses the soil microbiome and its importance along with factors affecting microbial activity in agricultural systems. Part 2 looks at management practices for better microbial activity and diversity. Part 3 examines monitoring and quantification of microbial diversity, challenges for adopting sustainable practices, government policy, and scaling microbial diversity from smaller to larger agricultural systems.


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Spectrophotometer for real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR)  testing, which measures DNA amplification to quantify the micro- bial community quantitatively. Photo by NPS/Jacob W. Frank and  published under this license: https://creativecommons.org/public- domain/mark/1.0/.
August 1, 2024

Fostering Microbial Activity and Diversity in Agricultural Systems

Adopting Better Management Practices and Strategies: Part 3

This article is the third in a three‐part series on fostering microbial activity and diversity through better management practices and strategies. Part 3 will discuss monitoring and quantification of microbial diversity, challenges for adopting sustainable practices, government policy, and scaling microbial diversity from smaller to larger agricultural systems.