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Bacteria Can Unlock an Essential Nutrient for Plants

Just like you and me, plants need a balanced diet to be healthy. However, while we can get most of our nutrients from the foods we eat, plants get their food from photosynthesis—and photosynthesis only provides sugar. A sugar-only diet would not be healthy for you, and it is not healthy for a plant, either. Plants need to get other essential nutrients from the soil around them, and it is not always easy. How do plants get around this? By partnering up with bacteria! In this article, we will note a few key details of these helpful microbes and explain where we found them. We will also describe a few experiments we performed to discover how they help plants to get one particular nutrient, phosphorus.