The largest blog for reading the latest medical research on all disease, the prevention and its treatment . Pulled from variety of sources

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Scientists seeing if bacteria can stop invading cheatgrass in the West : kivitv





As it stated in kivitv

Scientists seeing if bacteria can stop invading cheatgrass in the West

Scientists seeing if bacteria can stop invading cheatgrass in the West
Scientists seeing if bacteria can stop invading cheatgrass in the West
Scientists in southwestern Idaho are experimenting to find out if bacteria can stop an invasive weed that is spreading throughout the West.Cheatgrass gets its name by sending out early roots and cheating other plants of water in the spring.Then it dries out in the summer, becoming a powerful catalyst for wildfires that kill neighboring plants and destroy habitat needed by sage grouse and other wildlife, experts say.


as well seattletimes

Scientists try bacteria to halt invading cheatgrass in West

Scientists try bacteria to halt invading cheatgrass in West
Scientists try bacteria to halt invading cheatgrass in West
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — It sounds like science fiction: An unstoppable invader is taking over the West and the best hope to stop its relentless advance is a small team of anonymous scientists.But that's what is happening in southwest Idaho, where experiments are underway to determine if soil bacteria can halt the century-long assault of non-native cheatgrass, which sends out roots that cheat other plants of water in the spring."We hope that we can identify the effectiveness of the bacteria on annual grasses and to identify non-target risk effects," said Matt Germino, a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey running the experiments at three scattered sites of about an acre each.


furthermore foxnews

Scientists try bacteria to halt invading cheatgrass in West

Scientists try bacteria to halt invading cheatgrass in West
Scientists try bacteria to halt invading cheatgrass in West
It sounds like science fiction: An unstoppable invader is taking over the West and the best hope to stop its relentless advance is a small team of anonymous scientists.But that's what is happening in southwest Idaho, where experiments are underway to determine if soil bacteria can halt the century-long assault of non-native cheatgrass, which sends out roots that cheat other plants of water in the spring."We hope that we can identify the effectiveness of the bacteria on annual grasses and to identify non-target risk effects," said Matt Germino, a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey running the experiments at three scattered sites of about an acre each.


No comments:

Post a Comment