# Do soil microbial interactions create aromatic complexity?

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**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** microbes, soil-health, aroma\
**Created:** [December 1, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/do-soil-microbial-interactions-create-aromatic-complexity/4419 "2025-12-01T14:17:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 30, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/do-soil-microbial-interactions-create-aromatic-complexity/4419/2 "2025-11-30T21:52:15Z")

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> [@WATERMELON 2026 European Focus Crop](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/watermelon-2026-european-focus-crop/4400/7):
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> - In other words : “ **No soil intelligence, interaction = no aromatic complexity”** , in principle.
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> So it’s inspired both by a major failure to make progress (deemed due to too much subjectivity) and by recent development in sciences…

I’m curious to read some scientific articles on this topic. Do you have some good references for James White, John Kempf, Harriet Mella and others to point to?

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