James F. White -- The Rhizophagy Cycle: How plants get nutrients from microbes 

I placed corn seed at just below in the topsoil and after the plant grew higher than a few inches surrounded the plant with freshly made aerobic compost. The plant grew long tap roots into the soil and then grew an unbelievable amount of hairnet roots into the compost.

Thank God for true education

Wow this is the best presentation that I have seen in a long time. Thanks much for sharing!

Adding to the greater understanding of the whole, awesome, thanks James!

Brilliant lecture!! I have listened ro James afew times but this is the best one yet

Thanks so much for the fascinating talk! The absorption and dispersion of the combination(super oxidized microbe cytoplasmic material) of sugars (light), water(EZ/Gel form), and genetic material constitute the figural "breath of all life." The cytoplasm of the microbes is also partially EZ/gel phase water. Destruction of soil life ripples into us over time through the diet and ecosystem stressors reflected in our assimilation of such materials, our epigenetics. Horizontal gene transfer. Thank you Matt Powers, for referring your viewers to this research, and biproxy, this video.

fantastic presentation! congratulation! such as very interesting theory!

There is a constant growing and promoting of bacterias and pgpr growth in lab and then sold in bags for gardeners or farmers. Nobody really know what they ar3 adding. Can be good but also not. Who know what % of these pgpr will be effectively in symbiosis with the plants. How do you stimulate de presence of the bacterias in the video. Amendementsvoorstel or compost pile of biostimulants? John kempft use particular chelated minerals for example and raise photosynthesis of 300%

So the plant takes in bacteria, feeds them sugars, strips off the nutrients, and then emits the bacteria that survive this process. The population of bacteria around them will therefore evolve to fit this symbiotic role. I bet that as the root hair grows longer, the harder it is for the bacteria to survive, and the more the plant will be guiding the bacteria into serving the plant.

Question: if mineral absorption is achieved via Rhizophagy and the plant has achieved excessive mineral profile inside the plant (beyond the plant's need), 1. are there still the conventional antagonistic relationship between the minerals within the plant brought in by Rhizophagy? You know, Mulder's chart explains what happens to the soil level or root surface level? 2. How does the plant remove the excessive minerals or it doesn't try to remove at all? Many masters say excessive nutrient is the key to unbalanced uptake, but what if Rhizophagy takes over? Still care about excesses? 3. The conventional term for immobile/mobile nutrients within old and new leaves, what about "immobile nutrients" being stored inside roots and trunks, are they ever mobilised since Rhizophagy process has now been elucidated? What is the mechanism behind immobility? Thank you so much.

And now imagine you put Glyphosate in that soil. :-/ :-/ :-/

I had zero idea how plants ingest nutrients, but this is really *fascinating* Question is: how does all this work with plants that sit in a hydrophobic system: the water with the nutrients flows along, so any bacteria that exits the root hair will be dragged away?!? Is it Just a matter of the water being saturated with them that Some will be washed to the root tips again?

There is something I do not understand though. If you give nitrates or ammonium to a plant, she doesn't form rhizosheets any more and using minerals from the soil takes more energy than using amino acids (organic nitrogen). And it is well known that nitrates are the worst, since you need to get rid of those extra oxygen atoms which needs more water intake from the plant. So why would the plant, inside her cells, decide all of a sudden to transform the amino acids into nitrates ? Coz when John Kempf talks about your results, he says that the plant absorbs the amino acids and uses them directly. He doesn't talk about the nitrate transformation : for him the plant can just absorbs those ammino acids and extract the N without going through a nitrate phase. Why would the plant do that, if nitrate is the worst kind of form of N that you can give her ? Have your results changed since ? Or has John Kempf misinterpreted your results ? Also, he says that 90% of the nitrogen a plant gets on average is from bacteria and the rhizophagy cycle. Where does this result come from ? Do you have references ? I'm also curious about percentages for other elements like P K Ca S etc...

where can i get second reference

A question: this process happens even in the hidropinic system or it's different? thanks

Funny how the first thought of (mis)use of new science is destructive...