Who Feeds The Plants? Microbes!

Plants get their food from the soil they grow in. But this food is only available thanks to a great diversity of microbes, especially bacteria and fungi, that can chemically and mechanically transform materials in the soil into nutrients. These soil microbes have received a lot of attention from scientists all around the world, because these organisms could improve the way we grow our food and could make agriculture more sustainable. In this article, we explore some of the main mechanisms used by these microbes to feed plants.