We gratefully acknowledge the Long Lane Farm for gen-erously providing permission to collect soil samples from the farm's fields.We sincerely thank Barry Chernoff for his in-valuable feedback and advice,which greatly improved the quality of this manuscript.This study was primarily supported by funding from the John&Rosemarie Dooley Foundation and the Huffington Foundation.Additional funding was pro-vided through a grant to F.A.O.from the American Society for Cell Biology,with financial support from the International Federation for Cell Biology.We are grateful for the resources and materials supplied by Wesleyan University that enabled completion of this project.We sincerely thank all the in-dividuals who contributed their time,expertise,and funding to make this study possible.Finally,we fondly remember our late colleague Dr.Suara Adediran for his encouragement and support of our research team.We also want to thank Suzanne Bussolari,Shana Sperry,and Elizabeth Moemeka for their support and for helping with the procurement of the materials used in this study. （）