If it wasn't for fungi, plants would not be able to extract nutrients from the soil.
This means that the plant doesn't need to draw as much moisture from the soil.
Results from the soil testing should be available next week, the chief said Wednesday.
This molecule is a derivative of the antibiotic geldanamycin, which itself comes from the soil bacterium streptomyces.
Plants in the surrounding parks have been employed successfully to photoremediate the landscape, removing toxins from the soil.
Plants grow by taking water from the soil, and when a plant dies it frees water which it would otherwise consume.
Researchers are also excited about the Indian mustard plant, which they say is particularly handy at extracting toxic metals from the soil.
Experts say removing cadmium from the soil is a costly process that would likely require seeding certain plants for long periods to help remove toxicity.
Two to three inches of mulch spread around plants, trees and shrubs will slow water evaporation from the soil, help cool root systems and inhibit weeds.
The big difference is these firms derive their fortunes not from the soil and locally crafted manufacturers, but from the manipulation of ideas, concepts and images.
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This is usually interpreted as anti-parasite behaviour, but Dr Milewski suggests it might, at least in part, be a trick to absorb iodine from the soil.
Usually, they literally are summoned from the soil, where the organisms that produced them lived, into the factory, where scientists produce massive amounts of the new chemicals.
"People were amazed to see an area that was salty, sandy ground, turn into a lush green forest, that had mushrooms growing from the soil, " Lawton said.
You've had the heirloom tomatoes and artisanal, grass-fed steaks, the small-production wine so perfectly translated from the soil you can almost taste the olive trees growing beside the vine rows.
Food safety is a particular concern, as some of the contaminants from years of industrial development make their way into the country's food from the soil in which it is grown.
"At this field site, we are very lucky to have two key bioenergy crops growing side-by-side, which is allowing us to make a comparison of their effects on soil carbon and greenhouse gas emissions from the soil, " he told BBC News.
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In the tropics, they take up water from the deep soil and release it as vapor in the air.
Curve after curve of hills unfold along the river, lined with terraces carved out from the slatey soil.
At The Haycock Hotel at Wansford its cellar flooded after water seeped through the soil from the nearby overflowing river.
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The entire village is washed in rich sunburnt shades of ochre, (a natural dye taken from the local soil, no other color is allowed for buildings).
In California the building of desert based solar power plants has caused outbreaks of valley fever among workers, infected by spores that have emerged from the disturbed soil.
The poverty is all the more striking because of the richness of the setting: green and golden rolling hills, roaming horses and cattle, and tall corn and golden sunflowers sprouting from the fertile soil.
Her book is shorter and more measured than Mr Vidino's, and she has a surer grasp of the political dynamics of the Middle East, the soil from which the Brotherhood sprang.
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The fear generated from years of financial punishment creates the proper soil from which healthy plants can grow.
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As a precocious 14-year-old on holiday from school in England, young Leacock filmed the life story of a banana, all the way from dry soil to boxed crate, edited the results Russian-style with astonishing brio and sent them to Robert Flaherty, the leading American documentary maker of the day.
The team commented that the scarcity of macroscopic remains was in marked contrast to an abundance of microscopic evidence of maize in the guise of maize pollen samples collected from soil at the sites.
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To meet environmental standards, the Firemans hauled in 6 million cubic feet of soil from the Jersey shore.
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As well as questions from the audience about soil quality and slugs, there were others about coping with depression.
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The printers, operated by robots, would use soil from the Moon, known as regolith, to build the layered cover.
Those overruns are partly to blame for leaving Mars exploration short of the multibillion-dollar commitment needed for another "flagship" mission of the scale it would take to fetch rocks and soil from the Red Planet and bring them home.
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