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@ NunyaBidness
2025-05-13 21:29:29
Glomalin Goblin
Glomalin is the glue that holds soil particles together and it is tough. To isolate glomalin from the soil is a chemically brutal protocol.
It has to be heated to 250 °F in a citrate bath for at least an hour under pressure at 15 lbs. This process is so brutal that it would denature (effectively destroy) most biological compounds. The sheer level of force needed just to extract glomalin to study says much about how stable it is as a soil aggregator.
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi sheaths itself with glomalin as a protective layer. Its a glycoprotein and is carbon rich. It is estimated that a full 1/4 to 1/3 of all the earth's carbon is held in glomalin.
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