Is there any simple on field analytical technique to estimate microbial load in a soil sample?

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Bo Højris

The solutions from Oxford Nanopore (VolTRAX and MinION) comes quite close to do both sample preparation and sequencing in the field, but If you are merely looking for a fast indication of the overall load, ATP measurements are for sure applicable in the field.

Yagya D Gaur

Yes, by immunoflorescence technique one can estimate.

Y D Gaur

Ognyan Kostov

By determination of total microbial biomass. It can be donee y adding glucose solution and determeind (absorb) CO2 fixed in KON solutionb