Talk:Soil microbiology

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Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved, uncontroversial. (non-admin closure) Jenks24 (talk) 07:47, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

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Soil Microbiology → Soil microbiology – No reason for capitalization. 5hin3 (talk) 05:33, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Comment from IP

you gotta say that acytinomyces are bacteria— Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.227.176.70 (talk • contribs)

You say that all microbes other than bacteria are eukaryotes this is not correct - you have missed a whole domain - the Archaea

Algae

Should clean up the algae section, by throwing cyanobacteria in with algae the article is mixing major evolutionary groups. They should be moved to the bacteria section.

Also agree with above comments, the actinomyces need to be grouped with bacteria. They are clearly not fungi.

Language link

In the wikidata this page is linked to the Japanese page of ja:土壌微生物, but the Japanese page is isolated from this English page, and only connects to Catalan page. I tried to connect this English page with Japanese page but it was not available because the database is already connected. Can someone correct the database and connect English and Japanese pages? Katsutoshi Seki (talk) 09:47, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

This page needs serious tidying.

I just want to point out that some contributions stop in mid sentence and am concerned about the quality of this entry.

e.g.: Agriculture

Microbes can make nutrients and minerals in the soil available to plants, produce hormones that spur growth, stimulate the plant immune system and trigger ???

Farming can destroy soil's rhiziobiome (microbial ecosystem) by using soil amendments such as fertilizer and pesticide without compensating for their effects. By contrast, healthy soil can increase fertility in multiple ways, including supplying nutrients such as nitrogen and protecting against pests and disease, while reducing the need fo ???

The group of bacteria called rhizobia live inside the roots of legumes and fix nitrogen from the air into a biologically ??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hskoppek (talk • contribs) 14:36, 12 April 2019 (UTC)