Researchers uncover how soil microbes survive in harsh desert environments

Researchers uncover how soil microbes survive in harsh desert environments
How soil microbes survive in harsh desert environments
Initial authors Stefanie Imminger and Dimitri Meier sampling biocrusts in the Negev Desert, Israel. Credit history: S. Imminger und D.V. Meier

Prolonged droughts followed by sudden bursts of rainfall—how do desert soil bacteria regulate to survive this kind of harsh circumstances? This lengthy-debated problem has now been answered by an

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