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    Soil bacteria respire more CO2 after sugar-free meals

    2024-06-11T12:00:00Z

    Researchers have tracked the pathways of a mixture of plant waste as it moves through bacteria’s metabolism to contribute to atmospheric CO2. Microbes respire three times as much CO2 from lignin carbons compared to cellulose carbons, they say.