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Full Description
Healthy gardens begin with thriving microbial life.
Bacteria and fungi quietly shape plant health, nutrient availability, and soil resilience. Microbe Science for Gardeners explains how soil organisms function and how your gardening practices influence them.
When you understand the hidden world below ground, you can strengthen everything above it.
What You'll Gain
How bacteria and fungi drive nutrient cycling
How mycorrhizal fungi support root systems
How soil disturbance affects microbial networks
How organic inputs build microbial diversity
How to evaluate microbial products critically
Rather than marketing claims, you'll get evidence-based guidance.
Practical Applications
Support beneficial microbes naturally
Improve nutrient efficiency
Reduce practices that harm soil life
Build long-term soil resilience
Strengthen plant immunity through soil health
If you're looking for practical ways to cultivate living soil systems, this book offers clear scientific insight you can apply immediately.
Who This Book Is For
Gardeners interested in soil biology
Regenerative and organic growers
Market farmers building resilience
Readers evaluating microbial products
Anyone curious about the science beneath their garden
Support the unseen. Strengthen the visible.
Contents
1. Introduction
Why Learn About Microbes?
Terms Used in This Book
2. The World Under a Microscope
Microbes by the Numbers
Microbes Are Important to Plants
Microbes Can Harm Plants
Gardeners Affect Microbes
How Do Microbes Move Around?
How Much Do We Really Know?
3. Bacteria
How Do Bacteria Eat?
Where Do Bacteria Live?
Life Cycle of Bacteria
Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria
4. Fungi
What do Fungi Eat?
Where Do Fungi Live?
Life Cycle of Fungi
Pathogenic Fungi
Mycorrhizal Fungi
5. Yeast
Life Cycle of Yeast
Yeast-Plant Interactions
Yeast in Hellebore Nectar
Yeast Creates Alcoholics
Yeast on Leaves
Yeast in Soil
A Bioindicator of Air Quality
A Possible Solution to Plastic Pollution
6. Nematodes
7. Protozoa
Life Cycle of Protozoa
Nutrient Cycling
Protozoa-Plant Interactions
Plant Diseases
8. Viruses
Viruses in Soil
Life Cycle of a Virus
The Spread of Viruses
Virus Infection of Microbes
Virus Infection of Plants
Rapid Mutation
Beneficial Interaction with Plants
9. More Microbes
Archaea
Actinomycetes
Cyanobacteria
Algae
10. Microbe Communities
Microbe Communities and Microbiomes
Signaling Between Microbes
Microbes Attack Microbes
Mycorrhizal Interactions
Lichens
11. Plants Love Microbes
Nutrient Availability
The Phyllosphere
Rhizosphere
Rhizophagy Cycle
Seed Microbiome
12. Manipulating Microbes
Fungal-to-Bacterial Ratio
Effect of Agriculture
Biodiversity
13. Bioinoculants for the Garden
Bioinoculants for Seeds
Bioinoculants as a Foliar Spray
Bioinoculants for Soil
Microbes Are No Longer Living
Should Gardeners Use Commercial Bioinoculants?
Compost Tea
14. Pathogens
You Suspect a Disease—What Now?
List of Plant Diseases
Fighting Plant Diseases
Commercial Pesticides
Human Diseases
Endnotes
Index
About the Author
Also by the Author
About New Society Publishers
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