Sentences with phrase «whether microbes in the soil»

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So little can survive there that scientists have wondered whether snippets of DNA found in the soil are just part of the desiccated skeletons of long - dead microbes or traces of hunkered - down but still living colonies.

In the new study, the investigators set out to determine whether the microbe - metabolite relationships observed in the simplified test - tube system could be reproduced in a more complex soil environmenIn the new study, the investigators set out to determine whether the microbe - metabolite relationships observed in the simplified test - tube system could be reproduced in a more complex soil environmenin the simplified test - tube system could be reproduced in a more complex soil environmenin a more complex soil environment.

This redistribution of soil carbon storage raises questions of whether the balance provided by larger plants will stand in the long term or whether the more active microbes detected in the deeper soils will eventually offset the increased carbon in those deeper soils.

The intense debate over the results continues to this day; while surprising chemical activity was indeed found in the soil, it was undetermined, and still is, as to whether microbes were involved or just exotic but lifeless chemistry.