Harvesting Microbes in a Tomato Field (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Harvesting Microbes in a Tomato Field

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Graduate student and lead author Norma Morella of UC Berkeley samples plants from a tomato field at UC Davis to gather microbes that will be sprayed on tomato plants in the greenhouse and passaged to select a core tomato microbiome.

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Photo by Britt Koskella

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