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Reconstructing Soil Biology

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Book cover Molecular Mechanisms of Plant and Microbe Coexistence

Part of the book series: Soil Biology ((SOILBIOL,volume 15))

Soil bacteria and archaea first evolved as principal inhabitants of primordial environments, and then in association with fungi, plants and animals as new environments emerged. Thus, transitions occurred, which did not correspond to a replacement of ancient processes by new ones, but to a superposition or accretion of processes. The maintenance of primordial environments depends on the development of complexity to compensate for the effects of increasing diversity. Much of the persistence that is observed along the biological history of soils depends on symbiogenesis, which might be understood in terms, not of natural selection among biological systems, but of natural maintenance.

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Dion, P. (2008). Reconstructing Soil Biology. In: Nautiyal, C.S., Dion, P. (eds) Molecular Mechanisms of Plant and Microbe Coexistence. Soil Biology, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75575-3_3

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