Reconditioning Degraded Mine Site Soils With Exogenous Soil Microbes: Plant Fitness and Soil Microbiome Outcomes

Mining of mineral resources substantially alters both the above and below-ground soil ecosystem, which then requires rehabilitation back to a pre-mining state. For belowground rehabilitation, recovery of the soil microbiome to a state which can support key biogeochemical cycles, and effective plant...

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Main Authors: Benjamin Moreira-Grez, Miriam Muñoz-Rojas, Khalil Kariman, Paul Storer, Anthony G. O’Donnell, Deepak Kumaresan, Andrew S. Whiteley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01617/full