Fog-grown biocrusts

Here, we present and test a novel method to growing cyanobacterial biocrust inoculum based on fog-irrigation of soil substrates (FISS) that can be used with either pure culture or polymicrobial approach. By unifying and optimizing the two foremost methods for cyanobacterial biocrust inoculum production, our work improves on the ease and cost with which biocrust restoration technology can be translated to practical, widespread implementation.