{"id":59278,"date":"2024-07-18T20:56:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T18:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=59278"},"modified":"2024-07-19T13:56:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T11:56:19","slug":"woven-and-entangled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/woven-and-entangled\/","title":{"rendered":"Woven and Entangled"},"content":{"rendered":"The main characteristic of life is to communicate, to build social relationships, and to network.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA fantastic variety of tiny organisms pulsate in the soil. They enable plants, animals, and humans to survive. Microbes were already on Earth a few billion years before other life developed. They \"invented\" almost everything that makes up life\u2014cellular respiration, cellular communication, and the formation of dynamic networks, for example. Every plant has a microbiome\u2014a community of microorganisms\u2014in its root area. This is by no means accidental, said the renowned microbiome researcher Gabriele Berg, whom I visited for my new book Verwoben &amp; Verflochten [Woven &amp; entangled]. A plant chooses which microbes it takes into its root microbiome, and it keeps harmful microbes and <div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main characteristic of life is to communicate, to build social relationships, and to network. A fantastic variety of tiny organisms pulsate in the soil. They enable plants, animals, and humans to survive. Microbes were already on Earth a few billion years before other life developed. They &#8220;invented&#8221; almost everything that makes up life\u2014cellular respiration, cellular communication, and the formation of dynamic networks, for example. Every plant has a microbiome\u2014a community of microorganisms\u2014in its root area. This is by no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20676,"featured_media":59242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8825,8789],"tags":[11535,11530,8814],"class_list":["post-59278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-natural-sciences","category-research","tag-ausgabe-29-30-2024-en","tag-english-issue-29-30-2024","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}