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Re: [compost_tea] New Dirt Smell



Is that a desired part of good tea, Paulette or does it just smell good?  That is a most interesting magazine!!  Bob 

George and Paulette Mouchet <geomouchet@QNET.COM> wrote:
From the June 2003 Discover magzine (page 16):

Keith Chater, a microbial geneticist at the John Innes Center in Norwich,
England, an his colleagues, have traced the origin of geosmin, the source
of new-dirt smell.  It's from the bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor.

So if your tea smells good and earthy, it's probably got a bunch of S.
coelicolor bacteria!

Paulette




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