“Microbiological characterization of land set-aside before and after Roundup desiccation”*
• An experimental field in Prague, Czech Republic where grasses and legumes were grown was repeatedly desiccated with Roundup and then analyzed
• “The characterization included microbial biomass, available organic carbon, basal respiration, metabolic quotient, biomass-specific available organic carbon, arylsulfatase activity, soil organic matter carbon and total nitrogen”
• qCO2 is a formula for the “metabolic quotient” reflecting degree of uptake of carbon into the soil
• "In our study, qCO2 strongly (with high significance) declined following
Roundup desiccation from 2.4 to 1.6 mg C/g MBC/h”
• “The metabolic quotient obviously signaled unfavorable soil maintenance
with higher efflux of CO2 to the atmosphere.”
• “Organic practices rapidly improve soil microbial characteristics and slowly increase soil organic C (Carbon).”
*M. Růžková et al., Plant Soil Environ MBC = microbial biomass carbon 2011; 57(2): 88-94.
Red Tide and Algae Blooms
“Is Agriculture’s Use of Glyphosate Feeding Lake O’s Explosive Algae Blooms?”*