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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 325961" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>Actually, Lamisil would do in the fungal mycorrizae.</p><p></p><p>These are a sort of microscopic fungi that colonize plant root in miniscue threads. Instead of hurting they plants, they help by passing on nutrients from the soil and secreting chemicals that act as antibiotics. In exchange, the plant host passes on "pre-gested" glucose from its system</p><p></p><p>Legume nitrogent fixation is a kind of neat system. All legumes can do this (beans, lentils,cruciferous vegetables, and members of the clover family like alfalfa). Basically, plants use nitrogen as part of the metabolic process of creating proteins to use as nutrition. (Nitrogen is in nearly all fertilizers).</p><p></p><p>Legumes don't cast off the excess nitrogen as waste as other plants do. Instead, they fix it in their tissues.</p><p></p><p>When they are eaten, the products of the nitrogen cycle are passed on those who consume them.</p><p></p><p>Even more important, nitrogen fixers are able to survive in rough environments because they can store nitrogen. When a legume decays, the nitrogen is released into the soil in addition to the nitrogen cast off by the roots while the plant is alive.</p><p></p><p>In fact, in many areas of the world, legume plants are intentionally grown to be used as "green manure". In late fall, a crop of alfalfa might be plowed under to fertilize the soil.</p><p></p><p>In other areas legumes are rotated from field to field to replenish nitrogen taken up by nitrogen hungry crops such as wheat and corn and other grains.</p><p></p><p>Hope that clarifies things a bit. Now, if someone could just explain to me how I can learn all this junk and STILL have trouble balancing my checkbook?</p><p></p><p>ToK (another cool thing that the fungae do: there are tiny worms called nematodes EVERYWHERE including in us. Some kinds will attack plant roots. Some forms of fungi can make little "nooses" and chemically recognize the worms. They literally lasso them and kill them!)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 325961, member: 1963"] Actually, Lamisil would do in the fungal mycorrizae. These are a sort of microscopic fungi that colonize plant root in miniscue threads. Instead of hurting they plants, they help by passing on nutrients from the soil and secreting chemicals that act as antibiotics. In exchange, the plant host passes on "pre-gested" glucose from its system Legume nitrogent fixation is a kind of neat system. All legumes can do this (beans, lentils,cruciferous vegetables, and members of the clover family like alfalfa). Basically, plants use nitrogen as part of the metabolic process of creating proteins to use as nutrition. (Nitrogen is in nearly all fertilizers). Legumes don't cast off the excess nitrogen as waste as other plants do. Instead, they fix it in their tissues. When they are eaten, the products of the nitrogen cycle are passed on those who consume them. Even more important, nitrogen fixers are able to survive in rough environments because they can store nitrogen. When a legume decays, the nitrogen is released into the soil in addition to the nitrogen cast off by the roots while the plant is alive. In fact, in many areas of the world, legume plants are intentionally grown to be used as "green manure". In late fall, a crop of alfalfa might be plowed under to fertilize the soil. In other areas legumes are rotated from field to field to replenish nitrogen taken up by nitrogen hungry crops such as wheat and corn and other grains. Hope that clarifies things a bit. Now, if someone could just explain to me how I can learn all this junk and STILL have trouble balancing my checkbook? ToK (another cool thing that the fungae do: there are tiny worms called nematodes EVERYWHERE including in us. Some kinds will attack plant roots. Some forms of fungi can make little "nooses" and chemically recognize the worms. They literally lasso them and kill them!) [/QUOTE]
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