University of California Riverside: Let Them Eat Rocks
September 24, 2020
September 24, 2020
RIVERSIDE, California, Sept. 24 (TNSGra) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news:
UC Riverside is leading an effort that could help ensure food security and improve the worst effects of climate change -- by studying rock-eating bacteria and fungi.
These microbes break apart chemical bonds in deep underground layers of rocks, then die and release nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus into the soil. Aside from fertilizer, this is the . . .
UC Riverside is leading an effort that could help ensure food security and improve the worst effects of climate change -- by studying rock-eating bacteria and fungi.
These microbes break apart chemical bonds in deep underground layers of rocks, then die and release nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus into the soil. Aside from fertilizer, this is the . . .