How To Sample Testing Compost Find out what we see when we look at your Soil samples. Our new image gallery shows examples of what we view through our microscope and gives you an idea of what we're looking for when we analyze your soil sample. Enter the Gallery Testing Foliage Assay TM By Elaine Ingham, Michael Holmes and Lynn Rogers With on going work, we have seen that if a set of beneficial bacteria and fungi occupy the leaf surface, this protective biofilm can protect the leaf against foliar diseases and can possibly help make nutrients more available for leaf absorption. Correlative experiments performed show that plants with good biofilms on their leaf surfaces yield more fruit, but the exact mechanisms causing increased production have not been demonstrated.
More work is needed.
The Testing Foliage Assay TM allows determination of the area of leaf surface occupied by microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi. Obviously there are several questions yet to be resolved. We are working on these questions, and we invite you to participate in finding the answers to these questions. As a monitoring tool. The growth and survival of bacteria and fungi as well as foliar pathogens on leaf surfaces are dependent upon environmental conditions such as temperature and moisture.