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Critical review demonstrates a disconnect between presumed soil health and crop outcomes, indicating that soil inoculants may not reliably guarantee plant disease resistance.
Healthy soils produce healthy crops. right? Nope. Although it would seem the very definition of soil health, this popular thinking does not match what plant pathologists find (Janvier et al., 2007). It s not true.
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