Re: [compost_tea] New Dirt Smell

From: Robert Norsen <bnbrew_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 10:11:49 -0700 (PDT)

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_at_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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