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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] What Does It for Broccoli?
  • Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 21:48:43 -0600


All flora and fauna have symbiotes. It's a fact of biology. We couldn't live
without the bacteria in our gut. I was just curious if there was some reason
for the question.

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not
television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Only
those who know the most about it can appreciate how little we know about it.
- Aldo Leopold in Round River, 1933
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On 4/6/2006 at 10:07 PM Marty Kraft wrote:

>No problem with broccoli, just want to understand the relationships of
>those plants that don't form associations with micorizzal fungi. Do
>they have another symbiotic thing going to aid in their development?
>
>Marty
>On Apr 6, 2006, at 6:28 PM, TradingPostPaul wrote:
>
>> Some conifers, cane plants, exotics and others need certain micorrhiza
>> in their soil to germinate or survive, but humans have been growing
>> vegetables without adding specific microorganisms since the dawn of
>> time.
>>
>> Do you have a soil problem with broccoli? Not the easiest thing to
>> grow.






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