What type of bacteria breaks down nutrients in dead matter into simpler substances that are taken up by plant roots?

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Yonas Yohannes
Feb 17, 2016

Mesophilic, thermophilic bacteria aided by fungi in the breakdown and composting process.

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Mesophilic (low temperature 50-115°F) bacteria are characteristically predominant at the start and in the early part of the process, soon giving way to thermophilic (high temperature 110-150+°F) bacteria which inhabit all parts of the stack where the temperature is satisfactory, eventually most of the stack.

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