{"id":136383,"date":"2022-03-03T15:02:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T23:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/earthworms-have-the-potential-to-replace-use-of-synthetic-fertilisers"},"modified":"2022-03-03T15:02:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T23:02:44","slug":"earthworms-have-the-potential-to-replace-use-of-synthetic-fertilisers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/earthworms-have-the-potential-to-replace-use-of-synthetic-fertilisers","title":{"rendered":"Earthworms have the potential to replace use of synthetic fertilisers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earthworms-have-the-potential-to-replace-use-of-synthetic-fertilisers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earthworms could have the potential to replace some high-cost mineral\/synthetic fertilizers, new research suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at University College Dublin have unearth fresh insight into the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/soil\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">soil<\/a> dweller\u2019s importance for crops taking up nutrients.<\/p>\n<p>The findings suggest a shortcut in the soil nitrogen cycle not previously recognized in which earthworms, when they are active, rapidly enrich soil and plants through nitrogen excreted in their mucus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earthworms could have the potential to replace some high-cost mineral\/synthetic fertilizers, new research suggests. Researchers at University College Dublin have unearth fresh insight into the soil dweller\u2019s importance for crops taking up nutrients. The findings suggest a shortcut in the soil nitrogen cycle not previously recognized in which earthworms, when they are active, rapidly enrich [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}