Worms can process rice straw, scientists discover
Thursday, January 24, 2019 - 10:20
in Earth & Climate
A team of scientists from I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (MSMU) have discovered that earthworms efficiently process rice straw and enrich the soil with organic matter, increasing its fertility while preventing the burning of the straw, which takes a long time to decompose naturally. The results of the study were published in the European Journal of Soil Biology.