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FAQ
What makes a good soil inoculant?

Excellent question - one whose answer is  typically a close guarded secret. Simply stated an effective soil inoculant will include carefully selected organisms with an
even more carefully selected biostimulant package (their lunch pail, if you will).  To
be effective the organisms must colonize the roots (colonizing strains) and/or
establish their place in the rhizosphere (free living strains) and do so quickly before
they finish the food in their lunch pail. The strains must exhibit positive chemotaxis to
root exudates. This means they will actively seek out and move toward the “signals’
sent by roots.  They must be able to do this for a wide variety of plants in an equally
wide variety of environments. And, of course, be able to provide benefits to the plant
either by increasing the bioavailability of nutrients and/or by creating an environment
hostile to pathogens.
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