A New Emerging View on Microbiology and its Implications for Global Ecology
Jelte P. Harnmeijer & Kenneth H. Nealson
What, you might be wondering, is an article dealing with microbes doing in The Bulletin? In an era of genetically modified agricultural products on supermarket shelves and plans – in direct contravention of international legislation – for spraying engineered fungal agents on rural communities in Colombia, readers may well be forgiven for raising their eyebrows. However, as you are about to discover, humankind – and western society in particular – has much to learn from the way microbes treat their world.
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