image: Soil microorganisms colonize and degrade a plastic film (composed of the synthetic polyester PBAT) that has been incubated in an agricultural soil for six weeks. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 25, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.T. Zumstein at ETH Zürich in Zürich, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, "Biodegradation of synthetic polymers in soils: Tracking carbon into CO2 and microbial biomass." view more
Credit: [Credit: Dr. Michael Zumstein with equipment maintained by the Center for Microscopy and Image Analysis, University of Zurich.]