Even though soil type and inputs were the same, this biological factor stood out.
Now, this insight helps guide targeted interventions to restore microbial diversity in that specific field.
#Biodiversity #SoilHealth #SoilScience #MicrobeMonday

Here’s what we found: 🔍
While absent from the other fields, Penicillium roqueforti, a fungus known for producing antimicrobial compounds, was highly abundant in this field.
👉 These antimicrobial substances can suppress other microorganisms, which could explain the drop in diversity.

About blue cheese on BlueSky:
We recently worked with a client managing four different fields.
One of them stood out. It showed significantly lower bacterial and fungal diversity compared to the others.
We started digging into the data.

How to measure soil texture?

Traditional sieving and sedimentation is highly laborious and requires significant training for personnel.

Laser diffraction analysis can reliably achieve results highly consistent with ISO11277:2020 (doi.org/10.1111/ejss...)

Contact us for further questions.

Want to boost your agricultural field trials?

Even within an acre, soil texture is not homogenous but has significant spatial structure.

Costly field trials can suffer from reduced statistical power when this is not accounted for.

Measure soil texture and include it as a covariate in your model.

🌿🦠 New study shows wild Arabidopsis thaliana in diverse plant communities have richer microbiomes & less diseases. But these links shift with season & land use, highlighting how human impact reshapes host-microbe-pathogen interactions.
#MicrobeMonday

This looks super useful! Thank you for sharing :D

🌱 Talk Dirt(y) to Me: Why Soil Health Matters
I’m kicking off Pint of Science Hamburg 2025 on May 21 with a talk about why soil health is key to our future. Come for the science, stay for the beer, and leave with a new appreciation for dirt! 🍻

🧬 Today is DNA Day!
With metabarcoding, we extract and sequence DNA from soil to identify bacteria, fungi, and more.
It helps us understand soil health, biodiversity, and ecosystem function.
DNA is our window into the hidden life underground.
#DNAday #SoilMicrobiome #Metabarcoding #SoilHealth

Could you also please add us to this amazing starter pack? We are monitoring soil biodiversity with eDNA :)

Hey there, we monitor biodiversity via eDNA. Could you please add us to the list? :)

Could you maybe add us to that nice Starter Pack? :)

Soil biodiversity sustains nutrient cycling, carbon storage, and disease regulation. 🌱🌍 It is vital for food security, climate resilience, and even heritage preservation but is increasingly threatened. Understanding its role is key for ecosystem services and One Health. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Remarkably, the same locally trained model also predicted plant growth differences in global datasets, suggesting a highly conserved interconnection between the soil microbiome and plant performance across environments.

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#SoilMicrobiome #MachineLearning #AgTech (2/2)

#Soil microbiome signatures predict maize yield - and beyond. 🌱🧬

A recent study by us demonstrates that within-field differences in maize yield on a German farm can be well predicted using machine learning models trained on soil microbiome data. (1/2)

Really beautiful work on a very interesting topic! 🦠🌱

Soil inoculations are such a controversial topic, so it's great to see more hard data on this! Excited to read your findings and see how the mycorrhizal inoculants are impacting prairie restoration over time.🍄📊🌿

Great work! 🪱🌱 We're also starting to use eDNA to monitor earthworm communities in our projects, and it's exciting to see how much potential this method has for improving soil biodiversity assessments. Looking forward to learning more from your research! #eDNA #Earthworms #SoilHealth

Great work by @joellanos.bsky.social and team! This study highlights the power of eDNA in tracking soil biodiversity - especially earthworms, the unsung heroes of healthy soils. A step forward for precision monitoring in regenerative agriculture! 🌍🪱🔬 #SustainableFarming #SoilScience