Abstract
IT has long been assumed that micro-organisms play an important part in producing a crumb or aggregate structure in soil, and it is known that following the addition of sucrose to soil there is a marked development of water-stable aggregates.
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GEOGHEGAN, M., BRIAN, R. Influence of Bacterial Polysaccharides on Aggregate Formation in Soils. Nature 158, 837 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158837a0
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