Native prairie grasses and microbial community responses to reclamation of taconite iron ore tailing

TL;DR: The survival rate of Staph. aureus in a standard volume of denbrinated blood is a reliable quantitative measure of the bactericidal power of blood, and the number of viable organisms in the inoculum and in the blood-bacterium mixture may be estimated with the necessary accuracy by counts of colonies developing from measured volumes of the fluids let fall on to the surface of solid media as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured microbial community structure and carbon-utilization diversity in treatment plots from a mine waste revegetation project near Butte, Montana, and quantified arbuscular mycorrhizae colonization.

TL;DR: Investigation of the uptake of nutrients and REE when plants are inoculated with Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi indicates that AMF can alleviate the effects of REE and heavy metal toxicity on plants and enhance the ability of plants to adapt to the composite adversity of REe in mine tailings.

TL;DR: The high level of plant cover and the trend of increasing proportion of mycorrhizal-dependent warm-season grasses, along with increases in infectivity, forecast the establishment of a sustainable native grass community that will meet reclamation goals.

TL;DR: Mycorrhizal plants had the same rs with or without annuals, indicating that myCorrhizas may alleviate the detrimental effects of competition on rs of A. smithii, growing in an inoculum-poor soil.