Kevin Ricks (IMAGE)

University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

Kevin Ricks

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A University of Illinois research team, including Kevin Ricks (pictured), determined free-living soil microbes don't respond to plants' cries for help during drought. Rather, they adapt to drought on their own and incidentally provide benefits.

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