Tim and Stephanie discuss a paper by Martin Pion and others featured in the journal Applied Environmental Microbiology proposing a possible answer to why soil bacteria such as Pseudomonas spp. have flagella despite soil often being dry. You can see the abstract or if you have credentials (it is not open access) view the paper here.

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Links of interest:

The Nature Education Knowledge Project – The Rhizophere – Roots, Soil and Everything In Between

Soil Web – Soil Organisms

Iowa Agronomy Podcast – What Everyone Should know about soil microbe communities Dr. Nakatsu

Ohio State University - The Role of Soil Protozoa and Nematodes

NBC Learn – Science of the Olympics