Autonomous Robots Plant, Tend, and Harvest Entire Crop of Barley

Re:Autonomous Robots Plant, Tend, and Harvest Entire Crop of... by cwkoss on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:03PM (#15253504)

>Soil is an amazing thing and I think humans are only just getting a better idea of what's going on down there.

So true. A protein which makes up ~10% of soil by weight was only discovered in the 90s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomalin

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Re:Autonomous Robots Plant, Tend, and Harvest Entire Crop of... by shanev on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:33PM (#15253653)

And only last year we discovered soil has a micro-biome too [1], and it has a profound impact on plant growth.

The most fascinating aspect of soil to me is that it's a natural carbon store, which for obvious reasons will become increasingly important in the coming years.

[1]: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/soil-has-microb...

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