Looking To Nature For Solutions: High-Tech Detectives Seek Natural Control For Take-All
Washington State UniversityRoll down your window next time you drive past a wheat field. Listen carefully. Or better yet, get out and grab a handful of soil. Hidden in that soil is a conversation between the wheat's roots and a variety of soil bacteria. It takes a special ear, though, to hear this "cross talk," says USDA-Agricultural Research Service plant pathologist David Weller. For the conversation takes place via chemical signals.