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Interest in soil Polysaccharides commenced during the mid 1940’s when Martin (1945, 1946) in the USA established that the slimy bacterial products shown by Waksman and Martin (1939) to aggregate sand-clay mixtures were Polysaccharides. At about the same time Stacey and his colleagues in Birmingham (see Haworth et al. 1946) and Geoghegan and Brian (1946, 1948) at the ICI Research Station, Jealotts Hill, unknown to each other and to Martin, began investigating the uses of bacterial dextran and leven Polysaccharides for the improvement of soil structure and the retention of water.
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Cheshire, M.V., Hayes, M.H.B. (1990). Composition, Origins, Structures, and Reactivities of Soil Polysaccharides. In: De Boodt, M.F., Hayes, M.H.B., Herbillon, A., De Strooper, E.B.A., Tuck, J.J. (eds) Soil Colloids and Their Associations in Aggregates. NATO ASI Series, vol 214. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2611-1_11
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