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Aoife M. Duff

@aoifeduff.bsky.social

Soil microbiologist at Teagasc. Interested in microbial ecology, nutrient cycling, climate change, microbial adaptation to the environment, soil microbiome and nature

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SoilMicroBio@soilmicrobio.bsky.social · last yr.

If you do #qPCR on soils you might be interested in this paper led by @aoifeduff.bsky.social @femsmicro.org which shows the effect of mastermix, sample type, platform and gene target on the inhibition, precision and accuracy of quantification academic.oup.com/femsec/artic...

Counting soil microbial communities: the impact of qPCR platform and mastermix on accuracy and precision

qPCR is used to measure soil microorganisms but can be affected by inhibitors, change in mastermix, and platform. This study measured precision and accurac

academic.oup.com

David Ullrich@davidullrich202.bsky.social · 2y ago

Extreme heat may rapidly sap the ocean’s ability to absorb CO₂ The ocean carbon sink ― which removes about a quarter of our emissions from the atmosphere each year ― was much weaker than expected in 2023 www.newscientist.com/article/2459... docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Extreme heat may rapidly sap the ocean’s ability to absorb CO2

The ocean carbon sink – which removes about a quarter of our emissions from the atmosphere each year – was much weaker than expected in 2023

newscientist.com