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ScienceDaily: The ability of microbes, tiny organisms that do big jobs in our environment, to go dormant not only can save them from death and possible extinction but may also play a key role in promoting biodiversity and ecosystem stability. In a paper published this week in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, Michigan State University's Jay Lennon and Stuart Jones described how they used a mathematical model and molecular tools to study how dormancy affects the biodiversity of ......
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Dormant microbes promote diversity, serve environment
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 22nd, 2010
Posted in Water Conservation