Treelore

It's late and I have a couple of beers under my belt so if this is nonsense I'll re-explain tomorrow. For the most part I agree with Sean. However either due to his lack of explanation much the same as I was trying to avoid I may have misinterpreted some of what he said.
Fat people who live on pizza and macdonalds are alive. Moreso they can remain alive for extended periods of time. Their health and combative abilities however do remain in question due to their susceptibility through inadequacies within their diet.
There is no question that higher plant species require a higher fungal component to their ratios than bacterial....Does this suggest that bacterial quantities or responses are not necessary for higher plant growth??? Of course not... So as Sean mentioned holistic plant care is of a greater benefit. If you spray sugar water over a trees root system you will feed Bacteria in turn feeding protozoa and definitely increasing total biomass for the tree. This will increase readily available nitrogen because of C/N ratios between bacteria and protozoa but do nothing more than promote growth as Seans studies mentioned.
Trees exude into their soil something in the vicinity of 85% of their created sugars to feed surrounding organisms to benefit their lifestyle. Ordinarily throughout the millions of years that they have been adapting, sugar was the lacking component!! Without human disturbance fungal foods have always been in abundance. Cellulose, lignin and carbon are the food substances for fungus. Previously in history they were always present. With extensive land clearing and sunbaked earth these fungi have been seriously depleted because their condition is a moist and warm environment and they no longer exist. It is now our job to recognise original bacterial/fungal ratios as with protozoan and nematodal numbers and attempt to re-introduce that into our existing soils!!