Australia's soil whisperer

Pennie Scott
Updated June 19 2017 - 12:56pm, first published June 18 2017 - 4:45am
Dr Greg Bender's PhD involved listening to communications between plant roots and soil biology to recognise and understand the relationships and systems between them. Photo by Nick Huggins.
Dr Greg Bender's PhD involved listening to communications between plant roots and soil biology to recognise and understand the relationships and systems between them. Photo by Nick Huggins.

Dr Greg Bender can thank his father-in-law, a scholar of the classics, for inspiring the methodology of deduction he used to gain his PhD.

Pennie Scott

Pennie Scott

Senior Journalist

I am an independent scholar with interests and expertise in regenerative agriculture, equity and justice for farmers, functioning healthy landscapes and the culture in agri-culture. My aim is to inform holistically and honestly to ensure readers have access to what they need, now.

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