🧫🌾 Ancient #soil #Bacteria may have played a key role in the development of #agriculture by influencing #nutrient cycling and #plant growth.
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During the Archean Eon—roughly 4 billion years ago—the Earth was a lifeless planet. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, and there were few, if any, organisms to be found anywhere on the globe. Then…