Fingerprinting fugitive dust: Tracking soil microbes back to their source

Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 12:30 in Astronomy & Space

Each community of soil microbes has a unique fingerprint that can potentially be used to track soil back to its source, right down to whether it came from dust from a rural road or from a farm field, according to a soil scientist.

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