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Source draft|source=ArticleWizard|date=November 2011}} <!-- Please leave this line alone! SoilCure® is an organic, OMRI Listed, liquid microbial soil amendment that is manufactured by Microbes BioSciences in The Woodlands, Texas.

SoilCure is comprised of highly concentrated, sporulated, beneficial Bacillus bacteria and Mycorrhizal fungi. Its scientific blend of microbials enhances soil biodiversity that encourages rhizosphere and plant health and supports environmental sustainability.

Endospore-Forming Bacillus Bacteria
Bacillus bacteria can be categorized as beneficial, free-living soil and rhizosphere-associated bacteria that can function as plant growth-promoting bacteria. These bacteria can have both direct and indirect effects on plant growth by preventing or reducing pathogens and parasites in the soil, by providing the plant with a compound that it requires for growth, by facilitating the uptake of nutrients from the environment, by solubilizing rock phosphorus into useable plant forms, by contributing to the nitrogen cycle and by accelerating the mineralization of organic compounds into useable plant forms.

Bacillus bacteria are able to form endospores. These are dormant states of the bacterium that enable it to endure sub-optimal environmental conditions. Spores have a tough outer shell composed of keratin that allows the spores to survive deleterious environmental soil conditions such as: chemicals, heat, pH and high salinity. Endospores will reactivate themselves under favorable conditions.

The agriculture significance of Bacillus endospore formation allows the bacteria to be packaged, transported and stored for prolonged periods of time in inclement conditions. The endorpores can be inoculated onto soils to increase microbial biodiversity around the plant rhizosphere, where after contact with essential nutrients and favorable environmental conditions, the spores will begin to actively grow.

Mycorrhizal Fungi
Mycorrhizal fungi spores form mutualistic associations between a fungus and the roots of a vascular plant. Over 85% of all plants in nature form associations with mycorrhizal fungi. They are important components in soil chemistry and soil microbiology and are essential during times of drought and and environmental stress. Together, Mycorrhizal fungi and Bacillus bacteria work in concert to promote water conservation and sustainability.



Mycorrhizal fungi directly associate with plant roots and form filaments extending from the root system throughout the soil, effectively increasing the plant’s root system. Benefits include greater drought resistance, increased sugar and mineral exchanges between the plant and its soil microbiology, enhanced disease resistance and increased plant toxicity resistance.

Treatment Applications
SoilCure’s beneficial microorganisms can be applied directly to the soil through a drench or drip treatment. It can also blend with inorganic and organic liquid fertilizers, amendments, supplements and liquid crop-protection products prior to treatment.

Additional applications include surface or impregnation of dry fertilizers and composts (manure based or non-manure based), mulches, soils, sands and a wide variety of dry NPK and mineral carriers as a method to supplement microbial health to agriculture products for soil and foliar treatments.

Since it is a liquid microbial inoculant, it can be readily introduced into irrigation and fertigation systems – which are used in a wide spectrum of applications ranging from crop and turf grass production to horticulture, landscape and numerous other applications.

SoilCure is marketed towards production agriculture, turf grass, golf courses, horticulture, erosion control & restoration, hydroponics, forestry, arbory/landscape, seed treatments, urban agriculture and to organic management divisions of urban and community landscapers and pest control companies.

SoilCure Mode of Action
SoilCure’s microbials work at the plant rhizosphere to increase soil health and biodiversity and to accelerate mineralization at the plant roots.

Beneficial Bacillus and Mycorrhizal fungi have been extensively studied and tested to prove product performance against a wide scope of organic substrates commonly found in nature, as well as 100’s of other uncommon environmental substrates. These beneficial microbials are proven to successfully metabolize and mineralize insoluble nutrients into useable forms for enhanced plant uptake in wide ranges of soils, pH’s and salinities.

Beneficial Bacillus bacteria and Mycorrhizal fungi work in concert at the rhizosphere for greater soil health, biodiversity and plant crop sustainability.