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Fun fact: up to 30% of soil carbon is glomalin - it's a fungal byproduct which is very important to soil health. We only discovered these proteins in 1996. h
by cwkoss 5y ago
Fun fact: up to 30% of soil carbon is glomalin - it's a fungal byproduct which is very important to soil health.
We only discovered these proteins in 1996.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomalin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomalin
- tsimionescu 5y agoAccording to that article, we know this protein exists, but we have never actually been able to isolate and study it directly - we just see some derived substances. Fascinating how such basic things are still somewhat mysterious; and how it's easier to create antibodies to detect byproducts of a protein than it is to chemically isolate that protein!