Holistic Nutrition for Plants and People
Nutrition Farming Podcast
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The Role of Root Exudates in Nitrogen Sharing
As we accumulate too much carbon in the soil the microbes can become nitrogen deficient and so it's not just about carbon mining or burning the carbon out of soil organic matter. Even under nitrogen limiting conditions this can also burn a soil organic matter because it's liberating out the nitrogen and then carbon comes out as well which can then potentially be lost. It can be both carbon or nitrogen mining depending on the contextYeah and that's why we also nitrogen of course is a tricky nutrient to manage we don't want too little or not enough and we certainly don't wants too much eitherit's still talking nitrogen you differentiate quite clearly between the root exudate pathway compared to the micro isle pathway in terms
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