Maize is the world's second most important agricultural crop. The cereal was unknown to Europeans before the end of the 15th century, but since its arrival in Europe, it has changed agriculture, food and landscapes. Terraces where maize was cultivated in the Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula contributed to the formation of local cultures and identities. The history of maize and maize landscape are mementos that help to recover traditional practices, fostering identities, and are crucial for the successful implementation of sustainable policies to provide prosperous futures.
Summary
Maize (Zea mays L.) in the Iberian Peninsula embodies a history of landscape changes where the concepts of \uffe2\uff80\uff98exotic\uffe2\uff80\uff99, \uffe2\uff80\uff98traditional\uffe2\uff80\uff99 and \uffe2\uff80\uff98hybrid\uffe2\uff80\uff99 help to understand the engagements between landscape, farmers, agronomists (since the 19th and 20th centuries) and seeds. Today, landscapes reveal biophysical and ecological changes that reflect a panoply of intentions. A multitude of agents, and their interactions, acted upon those territories over time.
Using historical sources from the leading institutions dedicated to agricultural research in the Iberian Peninsula, this paper aims to (1) contribute to a better understanding of the maize landscape and culture in the Iberian Peninsula and (2) interrogate how landscape changes (and the landscape history of maize) can frame local or regional heritage and identities reflecting customs or ways of life.
The analysis unveils networks of knowledge, agricultural technologies and seed exchange. Politicians, economists, engineers, agronomists, farmers, governmental officials and agricultural industries planned and transformed traditional rural practices into modern and industrialised ones. Experts and politicians, willing to improve agricultural practices and seeds, using hybrid seeds or building new irrigation systems, led to deep social and landscape changes, allowing maize to cover territories far away from its traditional domains. Moreover, despite farmers' resistance, hybrid maize substituted landraces, eroding agrobiodiversity. Nowadays, the south and east regions of the Iberian Peninsula are the main producers of maize (hybrid), whereas in the Northwest maize is an occasional crop, being replaced by vineyards for economic reasons.
Global change is affecting soil biodiversity and functioning across all terrestrial ecosystems. Still, much is unknown about how soil biodiversity and function will change in the future in response to simultaneous alterations in climate and land use, as well as other environmental drivers. It is crucial to understand the direct, indirect\uffc2\uffa0and interactive effects of global change drivers on soil communities and ecosystems across environmental contexts, not only today but also in the near future. This is particularly relevant for international efforts to tackle climate change like the Paris Agreement, and considering the failure to achieve the 2020 biodiversity targets, especially the target of halting soil degradation. Here, we outline the main frontiers related to soil ecology that were presented and discussed at the thematic sessions of the World Biodiversity Forum 2022 in Davos, Switzerland. We highlight multiple frontiers of knowledge associated with data integration, causal inference, soil biodiversity and function scenarios, critical soil biodiversity facets, underrepresented drivers, global collaboration, knowledge application and transdisciplinarity, as well as policy and public communication. These identified research priorities are not only of immediate interest to the scientific community but may also be considered in research priority programmes and calls for funding.Research in limnology is nurtured by the work of many fascinating and passionate women, who have contributed enormously to our understanding of inland waters. Female limnologists have promoted and established the bases of our knowledge about inland waters and fostered the need of protecting the values of those ecosystems. However, on numerous occasions, their contribution to the advancement of limnology has not been duly recognized. Here, we review the presence of women in limnology through the history of the discipline: from the pioneers who contributed to the origins to present day' developments. We aim at visibilizing those scientists and establish them as role models. We also analyze in a simple and illustrative way the current situation of women in limnology, the scientific barriers they must deal with, and their future prospects. Multiple aspects fostering the visibility of a scientist, such as their presence in conferences, awards, or representation in societal or editorial boards show a significant gap, with none of those aspects showing a similar visibility of women and men in limnology. This article raises awareness of the obstacles that women in limnology faced and still face, and encourages to embrace models of leadership, scientific management, and assessment of research performance far from those commonly established.This article is categorized under:
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0.80). Root-system rates of nitrogen uptake were more strongly correlated with physiological uptake rates than with root biomass in unamended soil, but the reverse was true in fertilized replicates. We discuss nitrogen uptake and changes in root biomass in the context of root nutrient concentrations (which were generally unchanged with CO2) and standing pools of belowground plant nitrogen. In research to date, there appears to be a fairly general increase in root biomass with elevated CO2, and little evidence of up-regulation in root physiology.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "03 medical and health sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Heather L. Reynolds, Robert B. Jackson,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00328793"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Oecologia", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/bf00328793", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/bf00328793", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/bf00328793"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "1996-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/bf01048770", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-02T16:14:41Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2005-01-30", "title": "A Derivation Of The Pierre-Sluijsmans Equation Used In The Netherlands To Estimate The Acidifying Effect Of Fertilizers Applied To Agricultural Soils", "description": "The acidifying effect of fertilizers applied to agricultural soils can be estimated from their chemical composition and a quantification of the nitrogen cycle in the agricultural system under consideration. In The Netherlands, the acidifying effect of fertilizers is estimated from an ionic-balance equation, referred to as the Pierre-Sluijsmans equation. This equation estimates the amounts of lime required to neutralize the acidifying effect of fertilizers applied to agricultural soils. In the present paper this ionic-balance equation is derived from chemical considerations and its theoretical background is discussed. Particular attention is paid to the acidifying effect of the nitrogen component of fertilizers applied to agricultural soils.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "03 medical and health sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "H. Loman, J. J. Neeteson, K. Harmsen,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01048770"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Fertilizer%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/bf01048770", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/bf01048770", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/bf01048770"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "1990-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/bf03040379", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-02T16:14:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2009-05-12", "title": "Une forme de t\u00e9ratozoospermie monomorphe: Le syndrome des spermatozo\u00efdes macroc\u00e9phales et ses variants", "description": "Les teratozoospermies monomorphes refletent une anomalie de structure des spermatozoides rare, mais sont souvent source de discussion lorsqu\u2019il faut envisager une prise en charge therapeutique. Nous proposons donc de faire le point des donnees actuelles de la litterature concernant le syndrome des spermatozoides macrocephales et ses variants. D\u2019un point de vue pratique, en dehors de la forme homogene du syndrome, l\u2019assistance medicale a la procreation (AMP) peut etre proposee. Apres evaluation des taux d\u2019anomalies chromosomiques dans les spermatozoides de ces patients, une discussion multidisciplinaire et une information claire du couple sont necessaires avant toute prise en charge en AMP.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "03 medical and health sciences", "0302 clinical medicine"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Catherine Metzler-Guillemain, Vincent Achard, Georges Mercier, Marie -Roberte Guichaoua,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03040379"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Andrologie", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/bf03040379", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/bf03040379", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/bf03040379"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/bf03356262", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-02T16:14:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-04-16", "title": "Effect Of Intercropping Cowpea With Maize Or Cassava On Cowpea Bacterial Blight And Yield", "description": "The effect of intercropping cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) with cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) or maize (Zea mays L.) on bacterial blight of cowpea caused by Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. vignicola was investigated in five cropping systems: cowpea monoculture at high density and at low density, cowpea-maize \u2018within row\u2019, cowpea-maize \u2018in alternate rows\u2019, and cowpea-cassava \u2018in alternate rows\u2019, in the forest savanna transition zone of Benin over two years. After inoculation of field border plants, disease severity index and incidence were measured as areas under the disease progress curve (AUDPC). The AUDPCs for disease incidence and severity were reduced in one of four treatments in each of two subsequent years, and one of four treatments in one year, respectively, in the \u2018in alternate row\u2019 patterns compared to monoculture at high density. Disease incidence was higher in cowpea monoculture at high density than in cowpea-cassava \u2018in alternate rows\u2019 in year 1996, and in cowpea-maize \u2018in alternate rows\u2019 in year 1997. The disease severity index was reduced by 50% in the cowpea-cassava \u2018in alternate rows\u2019 pattern in 1997, but not in 1996. Highest percentages of leaves with spots or blight occurred only in the cowpea monoculture at high density. Compared with monoculture, cowpea yield was about 60% in intercropping with cassava and about 40% in intercropping with maize. Cassava yielded 45\u201357% and maize 53\u201360% compared to monocropped cassava and maize, respectively. Comparing the land efficiency use of cowpea monoculture at high density to intercropping, the land equivalent ratio was similar in the intercropping systems with \u2018alternate row\u2019 patterns, and a yield loss of cowpea in intercropping was compensated by the additional yield of the intercrop. Although no stable effect of intercropping on disease reduction was observed, intercropping cowpea with maize or cassava \u2018in alternate rows\u2019 reduced bacterial blight in some cases and generally gives the farmer more yield security in case of failure of one crop. Therefore, intercropping as one element of an integrated control strategy for cowpea bacterial blight should not be abolished by farmers in favour of monocropping cowpea.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "03 medical and health sciences", "15. 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However, recent studies about the importance of the gut microbial commensals on human health highlighted that the gut microbiome is an unexplored reservoir of potentially beneficial microbes. For this reason, academic and industrial research is focused on identifying and testing novel microbial strains of gut origin for the development of next-generation probiotics. Although several of these are promising for the prevention and treatment of many chronic diseases, studies on human subjects are still scarce and approval from regulatory agencies is, therefore, rare. In addition, some issues need to be overcome before implementing their wide application on the market, such as the best methods for cultivation and storage of these oxygen-sensitive taxa. This review summarizes the most recent evidence related to NGPs and provides an outlook to the main issues that still limit their wide employment.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Gut microbiome", "Clostridiales", "0303 health sciences", "Bacteria", "Faecalibacterium prausnitzii", "Probiotics", "Next-generation probiotics", "Prevotella", "Akkermansia", "Bacterial Physiological Phenomena", "Gastrointestinal Microbiome", "3. 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Although negative impact of species loss has been documented, the evidence concerning its impact on ecosystem stability is still limited. Here, we studied the effects of declining species and functional diversity on plant community responses to drought in the field (open to weed colonization) and greenhouse conditions. Both species and functional diversity positively affected the average yields of field communities. However, this pattern was similar in both drought-stressed and control plots. No effect of diversity on community resistance, biomass recovery after drought and resilience was found because drought reduced biomass production similarly at each level of diversity by approximately 30%. The use of dissimilarity (characterized by Euclidean distance) revealed higher variation under changing environments (drought-stressed vs. control) in more diverse communities compared to less species-rich assemblages. In the greenhouse experiment, the effect of species diversity affected community resistance, indicating that more diverse communities suffered more from drought than species-poor ones. We conclude that our study did not support the insurance hypothesis (stability properties of a community should increase with species richness) because species diversity had an equivocal effect on ecosystem resistance and resilience in an environment held under non-weeded practice, regardless of the positive relationship between sown species diversity and community biomass production. More species-rich communities were less resistant against drought-stressed conditions than species-poor ones grown in greenhouse conditions.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Biodiversity", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Droughts", "03 medical and health sciences", "Stress", " Physiological", "13. Climate action", "ta1181", "Biomass", "14. 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However, as Earth\uffe2\uff80\uff99s biological carbon sinks also shrink, remediation has become a key part of the narrative for terrestrial ecosystems. In contrast, blue carbon on polar continental shelves have stronger pathways to sequestration and have increased with climate-forced marine ice losses\uffe2\uff80\uff94becoming the largest known natural negative feedback on climate change. Here we explore the size and complex dynamics of blue carbon gains with spatiotemporal changes in sea ice (60\uffe2\uff80\uff93100 MtCyear\uffe2\uff88\uff921), ice shelves (4\uffe2\uff80\uff9340 MtCyear\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffe2\uff80\uff89=\uffe2\uff80\uff89giant iceberg generation) and glacier retreat (<\uffe2\uff80\uff891 MtCyear\uffe2\uff88\uff921). Estimates suggest that, amongst these, reduced duration of seasonal sea ice is most important. Decreasing sea ice extent drives longer (not necessarily larger biomass) smaller cell-sized phytoplankton blooms, increasing growth of many primary consumers and benthic carbon storage\uffe2\uff80\uff94where sequestration chances are maximal. However, sea ice losses also create positive feedbacks in shallow waters through increased iceberg movement and scouring of benthos. Unlike loss of sea ice, which enhances existing sinks, ice shelf losses generate brand new carbon sinks both where giant icebergs were, and in their wake. These also generate small positive feedbacks from scouring, minimised by repeat scouring at biodiversity hotspots. Blue carbon change from glacier retreat has been least well quantified, and although emerging fjords are small areas, they have high storage-sequestration conversion efficiencies, whilst blue carbon in polar waters faces many diverse and complex stressors. The identity of these are known (e.g. fishing, warming, ocean acidification, non-indigenous species and plastic pollution) but not their magnitude of impact. In order to mediate multiple stressors, research should focus on wider verification of blue carbon gains, projecting future change, and the broader environmental and economic benefits to safeguard blue carbon ecosystems through law.Genomic prediction with special weight of major genes is a valuable tool to populate bio-digital resource centers.
AbstractPhenotypic information of crop genetic resources is a prerequisite for an informed selection that aims to broaden the genetic base of the elite breeding pools. We investigated the potential of genomic prediction based on historical screening data of plant responses against the Barley yellow mosaic viruses for populating the bio-digital resource center of barley. Our study includes dense marker data for 3838 accessions of winter barley, and historical screening data of 1751 accessions for Barley yellow mosaic virus (BaYMV) and of 1771 accessions for Barley mild mosaic virus (BaMMV). Linear mixed models were fitted by considering combinations for the effects of genotypes, years, and locations. The best linear unbiased estimations displayed a broad spectrum of plant responses against BaYMV and BaMMV. Prediction abilities, computed as correlations between predictions and observed phenotypes of accessions, were low for the marker-assisted selection approach amounting to 0.42. In contrast, prediction abilities of genomic best linear unbiased predictions were high, with values of 0.62 for BaYMV and 0.64 for BaMMV. Prediction abilities of genomic prediction were improved by up to\uffe2\uff80\uff89~\uffe2\uff80\uff895% using W-BLUP, in which more weight is given to markers with significant major effects found by association mapping. Our results outline the utility of historical screening data and W-BLUP model to predict the performance of the non-phenotyped individuals in genebank collections. The presented strategy can be considered as part of the different approaches used in genebank genomics to valorize genetic resources for their usage in disease resistance breeding and research.
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The intensive utilization of sulfonamides has been leading to the widespread contamination of the environment with these xenobiotic compounds. Consequently, in addition to pathogens and commensals, also bacteria inhabiting a wide diversity of environmental compartments have been in contact with sulfonamides for almost 90\u00a0years. This review aims at giving an overview of the effect of sulfonamides on bacterial cells, including the strategies used by bacteria to cope with these bacteriostatic agents. These include mechanisms of antibiotic resistance, co-metabolic transformation, and partial or total mineralization of sulfonamides. Possible implications of these mechanisms on the ecosystems and dissemination of antibiotic resistance are also discussed. KEY POINTS: \u2022 Sulfonamides are widespread xenobiotic pollutants; \u2022 Target alteration is the main sulfonamide resistance mechanism observed in bacteria; \u2022 Sulfonamides can be modified, degraded, or used as nutrients by some bacteria.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Sulfonamides", "0303 health sciences", "Bacteria", "Antibiotic resistance", "Drug Resistance", " Microbial", "Anti-Bacterial Agents", "3. 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The aim of the study was to examine the methanogen populations in a drained bog in northern Finland, and to assess the possible effect of ash fertilization on potential methane production and methanogen communities. Peat samples were collected from control and ash fertilized (15,000 kg/ha) plots 5 years after ash application, and potential CH(4) production was measured. The methanogen community structure was studied by DNA isolation, PCR amplification of the methyl coenzyme-M reductase (mcr) gene, denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE), and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis. The drained peatland showed low potential methane production and methanogen diversity in both control and ash-fertilized plots. Samples from both upper and deeper layers of peat were dominated by three groups of sequences related to Rice cluster-I hydrogenotroph methanogens. Even though pH was marginally greater in the ash-treated site, the occurrence of those sequences was not affected by ash fertilization. Interestingly, a less common group of sequences, related to the Fen cluster, were found only in the fertilized plots. The study confirmed the depth related change of methanogen populations in peatland.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "Bacteria", "tuhkalannoitus", "metanogeeniset mikrobit", "Biodiversity", "15. Life on land", "03 medical and health sciences", "Genes", " Bacterial", "ojitetut suot", "Fertilizers", "Methane", "Ecosystem", "Phylogeny", "Polymorphism", " Restriction Fragment Length"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-003-0229-2"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microbial%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s00248-003-0229-2", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s00248-003-0229-2", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s00248-003-0229-2"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2005-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s00248-008-9390-y", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-02T16:14:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-04-28", "title": "Plant Responses To Drought Stress And Exogenous Aba Application Are Modulated Differently By Mycorrhization In Tomato And An Aba-Deficient Mutant (Sitiens)", "description": "The aims of the present study are to find out whether the effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis on plant resistance to water deficit are mediated by the endogenous abscisic acid (ABA) content of the host plant and whether the exogenous ABA application modifies such effects. The ABA-deficient tomato mutant sitiens and its near-isogenic wild-type parental line were used. Plant development, physiology, and expression of plant genes expected to be modulated by AM symbiosis, drought, and ABA were studied. Results showed that only wild-type tomato plants responded positively to mycorrhizal inoculation, while AM symbiosis was not observed to have any effect on plant development in sitiens plants grown under well-watered conditions. The application of ABA to sitiens plants enhanced plant growth both under well-watered and drought stress conditions. In respect to sitiens plants subjected to drought stress, the addition of ABA had a cumulative effect in relation to that of inoculation with G. intraradices. Most of the genes analyzed in this study showed different regulation patterns in wild-type and sitiens plants, suggesting that their gene expression is modulated by the plant ABA phenotype. In the same way, the colonization of roots with the AM fungus G. intraradices differently regulated the expression of these genes in wild-type and in sitiens plants, which could explain the distinctive effect of the symbiosis on each plant ABA phenotype. This also suggests that the effects of the AM symbiosis on plant responses and resistance to water deficit are mediated by the plant ABA phenotype.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "15. Life on land", "Adaptation", " Physiological", "Plant Roots", "6. Clean water", "Droughts", "03 medical and health sciences", "Solanum lycopersicum", "Mycorrhizae", "Mutation", "Symbiosis", "Abscisic Acid"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-008-9390-y"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microbial%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s00248-008-9390-y", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s00248-008-9390-y", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s00248-008-9390-y"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-04-29T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s00248-008-9467-7", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-02T16:14:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-11-21", "title": "Molecular And Functional Assessment Of Bacterial Community Convergence In Metal-Amended Soils", "description": "Species diversity and the structure of microbial communities in soils are thought to be a function of the cumulative selective pressures within the local environment. Shifts in microbial community structure, as a result of metal stress, may have lasting negative effects on soil ecosystem dynamics if critical microbial community functions are compromised. Three soils in the vicinity of a copper smelter, previously contaminated with background, low and high levels of aerially deposited metals, were amended with metal-salts to determine the potential for metal contamination to shape the structural and functional diversity of microbial communities in soils. We hypothesized that the microbial communities native to the three soils would initially be unique to each site, but would converge on a microbial community with similar structure and function, as a result of metal stress. Initially, the three different sites supported microbial communities with unique structural and functional diversity, and the nonimpacted site supported inherently higher levels of microbial activity and biomass, relative to the metal-contaminated sites. Amendment of the soils with metal-salts resulted in a decrease in microbial activity and biomass, as well as shifts in microbial community structure and function at each site. Soil microbial communities from each site were also observed to be sensitive to changes in soil pH as a result of metal-salt amendment; however, the magnitude of these pH-associated effects varied between soils. Microbial communities from each site did not converge on a structurally or functionally similar community following metal-salt amendment, indicating that other factors may be equally important in shaping microbial communities in soils. Among these factors, soil physiochemical parameters like organic matter and soil pH, which can both influence the bioavailability and toxicity of metals in soils, may be critical.", "keywords": ["DNA", " Bacterial", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "Bacteria", "Biodiversity", "Hydrogen-Ion Concentration", "15. Life on land", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "Metals", " Heavy", "Soil Pollutants", "Biomass", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-008-9467-7"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microbial%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s00248-008-9467-7", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s00248-008-9467-7", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s00248-008-9467-7"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-11-22T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s00248-010-9727-1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-02T16:14:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-08-03", "title": "Soil Microbial Abundance And Diversity Along A Low Precipitation Gradient", "description": "The exploration of spatial patterns of abundance and diversity patterns along precipitation gradients has focused for centuries on plants and animals; microbial profiles along such gradients are largely unknown. We studied the effects of soil pH, nutrient concentration, salinity, and water content on bacterial abundance and diversity in soils collected from Mediterranean, semi-arid, and arid sites receiving approximately 400, 300, and 100 mm annual precipitation, respectively. Bacterial diversity was evaluated by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism and clone library analyses and the patterns obtained varied with the climatic regions. Over 75% of the sequenced clones were unique to their environment, while \u223c2% were shared by all sites, yet, the Mediterranean and semi-arid sites had more common clones (\u223c9%) than either had with the arid site (4.7% and 6%, respectively). The microbial abundance, estimated by phospholipid fatty acids and real-time quantitative PCR assays, was significantly lower in the arid region. Our results indicate that although soil bacterial abundance decreases with precipitation, bacterial diversity is independent of precipitation gradient. Furthermore, community composition was found to be unique to each ecosystem.", "keywords": ["DNA", " Bacterial", "2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "Salinity", "0303 health sciences", "Bacteria", "Mediterranean Region", "Climate", "Rain", "Water", "Biodiversity", "Hydrogen-Ion Concentration", "15. Life on land", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "Phospholipids", "Polymorphism", " Restriction Fragment Length", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-010-9727-1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microbial%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s00248-010-9727-1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s00248-010-9727-1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s00248-010-9727-1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2010-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s00248-016-0730-z", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-02T16:14:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-02-02", "title": "Responses Of Soil Bacterial Communities To Nitrogen Deposition And Precipitation Increment Are Closely Linked With Aboveground Community Variation", "description": "It has been predicted that precipitation and atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition will increase in northern China; yet, ecosystem responses to the interactive effects of water and N remain largely unknown. In particular, responses of belowground microbial community to projected global change and their potential linkages to aboveground macro-organisms are rarely studied. In this study, we examined the responses of soil bacterial diversity and community composition to increased precipitation and multi-level N deposition in a temperate steppe in Inner Mongolia, China, and explored the diversity linkages between aboveground and belowground communities. It was observed that N addition caused the significant decrease in bacterial alpha-diversity and dramatic changes in community composition. In addition, we documented strong correlations of alpha- and beta-diversity between plant and bacterial communities in response to N addition. It was found that N enriched the so-called copiotrophic bacteria, but reduced the oligotrophic groups, primarily by increasing the soil inorganic N content and carbon availability and decreasing soil pH. We still highlighted that increased precipitation tended to alleviate the effects of N on bacterial diversity and dampen the plant-microbe connections induced by N. The counteractive effects of N addition and increased precipitation imply that even though the ecosystem diversity and function are predicted to be negatively affected by N deposition in the coming decades; the combination with increased precipitation may partially offset this detrimental effect.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "China", "0303 health sciences", "Bacteria", "Nitrogen", "Climate", "Microbial Consortia", "Water", "Biodiversity", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "Carbon", "6. Clean water", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "Chemical Precipitation", "Ecosystem", "Phylogeny", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-016-0730-z"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microbial%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s00248-016-0730-z", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s00248-016-0730-z", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s00248-016-0730-z"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-02-02T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s00248-012-0067-1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-02T16:14:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-05-25", "title": "Erratum To: Soil Fertility And The Impact Of Exotic Invasion On Microbial Communities In Hawaiian Forests", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-012-0067-1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microbial%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s00248-012-0067-1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s00248-012-0067-1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s00248-012-0067-1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-05-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s00248-013-0225-0", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-02T16:14:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-04-15", "title": "Agricultural Management And Labile Carbon Additions Affect Soil Microbial Community Structure And Interact With Carbon And Nitrogen Cycling", "description": "We investigated how conversion from conventional agriculture to organic management affected the structure and biogeochemical function of soil microbial communities. We hypothesized the following. (1) Changing agricultural management practices will alter soil microbial community structure driven by increasing microbial diversity in organic management. (2) Organically managed soil microbial communities will mineralize more N and will also mineralize more N in response to substrate addition than conventionally managed soil communities. (3) Microbial communities under organic management will be more efficient and respire less added C. Soils from organically and conventionally managed agroecosystems were incubated with and without glucose ((13)C) additions at constant soil moisture. We extracted soil genomic DNA before and after incubation for TRFLP community fingerprinting of soil bacteria and fungi. We measured soil C and N pools before and after incubation, and we tracked total C respired and N mineralized at several points during the incubation. Twenty years of organic management altered soil bacterial and fungal community structure compared to continuous conventional management with the bacterial differences caused primarily by a large increase in diversity. Organically managed soils mineralized twice as much NO3 (-) as conventionally managed ones (44 vs. 23 \u03bcg N/g soil, respectively) and increased mineralization when labile C was added. There was no difference in respiration, but organically managed soils had larger pools of C suggesting greater efficiency in terms of respiration per unit soil C. These results indicate that the organic management induced a change in community composition resulting in a more diverse community with enhanced activity towards labile substrates and greater capacity to mineralize N.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Environmental Microbiology and Microbial Ecology", "Bacteria", "Nitrogen", "Fungal Community Structure", "Agriculture", "Nitrogen Cycle", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "630", "Carbon", "Carbon Cycle", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "rRNA Gene Copy", "Soil Microbial Community Structure", "fungal community", "Biology", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-013-0225-0"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microbial%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s00248-013-0225-0", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s00248-013-0225-0", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s00248-013-0225-0"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-04-16T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s00248-013-0235-y", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-02T16:14:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-05-01", "title": "Changes In Diversity, Abundance, And Structure Of Soil Bacterial Communities In Brazilian Savanna Under Different Land Use Systems", "description": "The Brazilian Savanna, also known as 'Cerrado', is the richest and most diverse savanna in the world and has been ranked as one of the main hotspots of biodiversity. The Cerrado is a representative biome in Central Brazil and the second largest biome in species diversity of South America. Nevertheless, large areas of native vegetation have been converted to agricultural land including grain production, livestock, and forestry. In this view, understanding how land use affects microbial communities is fundamental for the sustainable management of agricultural ecosystems. The aim of this work was to analyze and compare the soil bacterial communities from the Brazilian Cerrado associated with different land use systems using high throughput pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA genes. Relevant differences were observed in the abundance and structure of bacterial communities in soils under different land use systems. On the other hand, the diversity of bacterial communities was not relevantly changed among the sites studied. Land use systems had also an important impact on specific bacterial groups in soil, which might change the soil function and the ecological processes. Acidobacteria, Proteobacteria, and Actinobacteria were the most abundant groups in the Brazilian Cerrado. These findings suggest that more important than analyzing the general diversity is to analyze the composition of the communities. Since soil type was the same among the sites, we might assume that land use was the main factor defining the abundance and structure of bacterial communities.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "Bacteria", "Molecular Sequence Data", "Agriculture", "Biodiversity", "15. Life on land", "Brazil", "Ecosystem", "Phylogeny", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-013-0235-y"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microbial%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s00248-013-0235-y", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s00248-013-0235-y", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s00248-013-0235-y"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-04-27T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s00248-013-0322-0", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-02T16:14:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-11-25", "title": "Pyrosequencing Reveals Contrasting Soil Bacterial Diversity And Community Structure Of Two Main Winter Wheat Cropping Systems In China", "description": "Microbes are key components of the soil environment, playing an important role in maintaining soil health, sustainability, and productivity. The composition and structure of soil bacterial communities were examined in winter wheat-rice (WR) and winter wheat-maize (WM) cropping systems derived from five locations in the Low-Middle Yangtze River plain and the Huang-Huai-Hai plain by pyrosequencing of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene amplicons. A total of 102,367 high quality sequences were used for multivariate statistical analysis and to test for correlation between community structure and environmental variables such as crop rotations, soil properties, and locations. The most abundant phyla across all soil samples were Proteobacteria, Acidobacteria, and Bacteroidetes. Similar patterns of bacterial diversity and community structure were observed within the same cropping systems, and a higher relative abundance of anaerobic bacteria was found in WR compared to WM cropping systems. Variance partitioning analysis revealed complex relationships between bacterial community and environmental variables. The effect of crop rotations was low but significant, and interactions among soil properties, locations, and crop rotations accounted for most of the explained variation in the structure of bacterial communities. Soil properties such as pH, available P, and available K showed higher correlations (positive or negative) with the majority of the abundant taxa. Bacterial diversity (the Shannon index) and richness (Chao1 and ACE) were higher under WR than WM cropping systems.", "keywords": ["Crops", " Agricultural", "DNA", " Bacterial", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "China", "0303 health sciences", "Agriculture", "Biodiversity", "Sequence Analysis", " DNA", "15. Life on land", "Zea mays", "03 medical and health sciences", "RNA", " Ribosomal", " 16S", "11. Sustainability", "Soil Microbiology", "Triticum"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-013-0322-0"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microbial%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s00248-013-0322-0", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s00248-013-0322-0", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s00248-013-0322-0"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-11-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s00248-018-1305-y", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-02T16:14:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-12-08", "title": "Soil Type and Cyanobacteria Species Influence the Macromolecular and Chemical Characteristics of the Polysaccharidic Matrix in Induced Biocrusts", "description": "Inoculation of soils with cyanobacteria is proposed as a sustainable biotechnological technique for restoration of degraded areas in drylands due to the important role that cyanobacteria and their exopolysaccharides (EPS) play in the environment. So far, few studies have analyzed the macromolecular and chemical characteristics of the polysaccharidic matrix in induced cyanobacterial biocrusts and the scarce existing studies have mainly focused on sandy soil textures. However, the characteristics of the cyanobacterial polysaccharidic matrix may greatly depend on soil type. The objective of this study was to examine the macromolecular distribution and monosaccharidic composition of the polysaccharidic matrix induced by inoculation of two cyanobacterial species common in arid environments, Phormidium ambiguum (non N-fixing) and Scytonema javanicum (N-fixing) in different soil types. S. javanicum promoted a higher release in the soil of the more soluble and less condensed EPS fraction (i.e., the loosely bound EPS fraction, LB-EPS), while P. ambiguum showed a higher release of the less soluble and more condensed EPS fraction (i.e., the tightly bound EPS fraction, TB-EPS). LB-EPSs were mainly composed of low MW molecules (<\u200950\u00a0kDa), while TB-EPSs were mainly composed of high MW molecules (1100-2000\u00a0kDa). The two EPS fractions showed a complex monosaccharidic composition (from 11 to 12 different types of monosaccharides), with glucose as the most abundant monosaccharide, in particular in the poorer soils characterized by lower organic C contents. In more C-rich soils, high abundances of galactose, mannose, and xylose were also found. Low abundance of uronic acids and hydrophobic monosaccharides, such as fucose and rhamnose, was found in the EPS extracted from the inoculated soils. Our results point to the influence of soil type on the macromolecular distribution and monosaccharide composition of the polysaccharidic matrix in induced biocrusts, which is likely to affect biocrust development and their role in soil structure and nutrient cycling in restored dryland soils.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Cyanobacteria inoculation", "Tightly bound EPS", "Polysaccharides", " Bacterial", "Biological soil crust; Cyanobacteria inoculation; Loosely bound EPS; Molecular weight; Monosaccharide composition; Tightly bound EPS; Ecology; Evolution; Behavior and Systematics; Ecology; Soil Science", "Biological soil crust", "Monosaccharide composition", "15. Life on land", "Cyanobacteria", "Molecular weight", "Biological soil crust; Cyanobacteria inoculation; Loosely bound EPS; Molecular weight; Monosaccharide composition; Tightly bound EPS; Ecology", " Evolution", " Behavior and Systematics; Ecology; Soil Science", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. 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The effects of simulated warming and sheep grazing on methanotrophic abundance, community composition, and activity were studied in an alpine meadow soil on the Tibetan Plateau. There was high abundance of methanotrophs (1.2-3.4\u2009\u00d7\u200910(8) pmoA gene copies per gram of dry weight soil) assessed by real-time PCR, and warming significantly increased the abundance regardless of grazing. A total of 64 methanotrophic operational taxonomic units (OTUs) were obtained from 1,439 clone sequences, of these OTUs; 63 OTUs (98.4%) belonged to type I methanotrophs, and only one OTU was Methylocystis of type II methanotrophs. The methanotroph community composition and diversity were not apparently affected by the treatments. Warming and grazing significantly enhanced the potential CH(4) oxidation activity. There were significantly negative correlations between methanotrophic abundance and soil moisture and between methanotrophic abundance and NH(4)-N content. The study suggests that type I methanotrophs, as the dominance, may play a key role in CH(4) oxidation, and the alpine meadow has great potential to consume more CH(4) under future warmer and grazing conditions on the Tibetan Plateau.", "keywords": ["DNA", " Bacterial", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Sheep", "Bacteria", "Molecular Sequence Data", "Temperature", "Sequence Analysis", " DNA", "15. Life on land", "Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction", "Tibet", "Biota", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "Ammonia", "13. Climate action", "Animals", "Methane", "Oxidation-Reduction", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-011-3535-5"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Microbiology%20and%20Biotechnology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s00253-011-3535-5", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s00253-011-3535-5", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s00253-011-3535-5"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-08-17T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s00253-012-4173-2", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-02T16:14:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-06-20", "title": "Pectin-Rich Biomass As Feedstock For Fuel Ethanol Production", "description": "The USA has proposed that 30\u00a0% of liquid transportation fuel be produced from renewable resources by 2030 (Perlack and Stokes 2011). It will be impossible to reach this goal using corn kernel-based ethanol alone. Pectin-rich biomass, an under-utilized waste product of the sugar and juice industry, can augment US ethanol supplies by capitalizing on this already established feedstock. Currently, pectin-rich biomass is sold (at low value) as animal feed. This review focuses on the three most studied types of pectin-rich biomass: sugar beet pulp, citrus waste and apple pomace. Fermentations of these materials have been conducted with a variety of ethanologens, including yeasts and bacteria. Escherichia coli can ferment a wide range of sugars including galacturonic acid, the primary component of pectin. However, the mixed acid metabolism of E. coli can produce unwanted side products. Saccharomyces cerevisiae cannot naturally ferment galacturonic acid nor pentose sugars but has a homoethanol pathway. Erwinia chrysanthemi is capable of degrading many of the cell wall components of pectin-rich materials, including pectin. Klebsiella oxytoca can metabolize a diverse array of sugars including cellobiose, one degradation product of cellulose. However, both E. chrysanthemi and K. oxytoca produce side products during fermentation, similar to E. coli. Using pectin-rich residues from industrial processes is beneficial because the material is already collected and partially pretreated to facilitate enzymatic deconstruction of the plant cell walls. Using biomass already produced for other purposes is an attractive practice because fewer greenhouse gases (GHG) will be anticipated from land-use changes.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Bacteria", "Ethanol", "Fungi", "Industrial Waste", "Mini-Review", "15. Life on land", "Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology", "7. Clean energy", "12. Responsible consumption", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. 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Edwards,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-012-4173-2"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Microbiology%20and%20Biotechnology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s00253-012-4173-2", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s00253-012-4173-2", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s00253-012-4173-2"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-06-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s00253-016-7736-9", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-02T16:14:45Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-07-27", "title": "Structure Of Bacterial Communities In Soil Following Cover Crop And Organic Fertilizer Incorporation", "description": "Incorporation of organic material into soils is an important element of organic farming practices that can affect the composition of the soil bacterial communities that carry out nutrient cycling and other functions crucial to crop health and growth. We conducted a field experiment to determine the effects of cover crops and fertilizers on bacterial community structure in agricultural soils under long-term organic management. Illumina sequencing of 16S rDNA revealed diverse communities comprising 45 bacterial phyla in corn rhizosphere and bulk field soil. Community structure was most affected by location and by the rhizosphere effect, followed by sampling time and amendment treatment. These effects were associated with soil physicochemical properties, including pH, moisture, organic matter, and nutrient levels. Treatment differences were apparent in bulk and rhizosphere soils at the time of peak corn growth in the season following cover crop and fertilizer application. Cover crop and fertilizer treatments tended to lower alpha diversity in early season samples. However, winter rye, oilseed radish, and buckwheat cover crop treatments increased alpha diversity in some later season samples compared to a no-amendment control. Fertilizer treatments and some cover crops decreased relative abundance of members of the ammonia-oxidizing family Nitrosomonadaceae. Pelleted poultry manure and Sustane\u00ae (a commercial fertilizer) decreased the relative abundance of Rhizobiales. Our data point to a need for future research exploring how (1) cover crops influence bacterial community structure and functions, (2) these effects differ with biomass composition and quantity, and (3) existing soil conditions and microbial community composition influence how soil microbial populations respond to agricultural management practices.", "keywords": ["Crops", " Agricultural", "DNA", " Bacterial", "2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing", "Sequence Analysis", " DNA", "15. Life on land", "Biota", "DNA", " Ribosomal", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. 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O. oeni is abundant in the oenological environment as well as in apple cider and kombucha, whereas it is a minor species in the natural environment. Numerous studies have shown that there is a great diversity of strains in each wine region and in each product or type of wine. Recently, genomic studies have shed new light on the species diversity, population structure, and environmental distribution. They revealed that O. oeni has unique genomic features that have contributed to its fast evolution and adaptation to the enological environment. They have also unveiled the phylogenetic diversity and genomic properties of strains that develop in different regions or different products. This review explores the distribution of O. oeni and the diversity of strains in natural habitats.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "570", "Evolution", "[SPI.GPROC] Engineering Sciences [physics]/Chemical and Process Engineering", "590", "Wine", "01 natural sciences", "Domestication", "Evolution", " Molecular", "03 medical and health sciences", "[SDV.IDA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food engineering", "MD Multidisciplinary", "[SPI.GPROC]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Chemical and Process Engineering", "Ecosystem", "Oenococcus", "Phylogeny", "0303 health sciences", "Malolactic fermentation", "Genetic Variation", "Genomics", "[SDV.IDA] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food engineering", "Mini-Review", "Fermentation", "Oenococcus oeni", "Biotechnology"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00253-019-09689-z.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-019-09689-z"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Microbiology%20and%20Biotechnology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s00253-019-09689-z", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s00253-019-09689-z", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s00253-019-09689-z"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-02-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s00253-020-10811-9", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-02T16:14:45Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-08-13", "title": "Industrial biotechnology of Pseudomonas putida: advances and prospects", "description": "AbstractPseudomonas putidais a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that can be encountered in diverse ecological habitats. This ubiquity is traced to its remarkably versatile metabolism, adapted to withstand physicochemical stress, and the capacity to thrive in harsh environments. Owing to these characteristics, there is a growing interest in this microbe for industrial use, and the corresponding research has made rapid progress in recent years. Hereby, strong drivers are the exploitation of cheap renewable feedstocks and waste streams to produce value-added chemicals and the steady progress in genetic strain engineering and systems biology understanding of this bacterium. Here, we summarize the recent advances and prospects in genetic engineering, systems and synthetic biology, and applications ofP. putidaas a cell factory.
Key points\uffe2\uff80\uffa2 Pseudomonas putida advances to a global industrial cell factory.
\uffe2\uff80\uffa2 Novel tools enable system-wide understanding and streamlined genomic engineering.
\uffe2\uff80\uffa2 Applications of P. putida range from bioeconomy chemicals to biosynthetic drugs.
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Microbiomes and submerged macrophytes (hydrophytes) play essential roles in conversions of organic and inorganic compounds in those ecosystems. The systems were extensively investigated for microbial diversities and compositions. However, little is known about how hydrophytes recruited diverse microbiota and affected functional zonation in aquatic systems. To address this issue, epiphytic leaf and root, sediment, and surrounding water samples were collected from the dragon-shape aquatic system in Beijing Olympic Park. Metagenomic DNAs were extracted and subjected to sequencing. Results showed that epiphytic leaf and root microbiomes and metabolic marker genes were remarkably different from that of surrounding environment. Twenty indicator bacterial genera for epiphytic microbiomes were identified and 50 metabolic marker genes were applied to evaluate the function of epiphytic leaf and root, water, and sediment microbiomes. Co-occurrence analysis revealed highly modularized pattern of metabolic marker genes and indicator bacterial genera related to metabolic functions. These results suggested that hydrophytes shaped microbiomes and drove functional zonation in aquatic systems. KEY POINTS: \u2022 Microbiomes of hydrophytes and their surrounding environments were investigated. \u2022 Twenty indicator bacterial genera highly specific to epiphytic biofilms were identified. \u2022 Epiphytes recruited unique microbiomes and drove functional zonation in aquatic systems.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "Beijing", "Microbiota", "Metagenomics", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. 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However, it remains unclear how grazing influences plant community attributes and the variability of standing crop. We examined the effects of sheep grazing at four stocking rate treatments [control, 0 sheep ha(-1) month(-1); light (LG), 0.15 sheep ha(-1 )month(-1); moderate (MG), 0.30 sheep ha(-1) month(-1); and heavy (HG), 0.45 sheep ha(-1) month(-1)] on standing crop at the community level and partitioned by species and functional groups, in the desert steppe of Inner Mongolia, China. The treatments were arranged in a completely randomized block design over a 9-year period. Standing crop was measured every August from 2004 to 2012. Peak standing crop decreased (P < 0.05) with increasing stocking rate; peak standing crop in the HG treatment decreased 40 % compared to the control. May-July precipitation explained at least 76 % of the variation in peak standing crop. MG and HG treatments resulted in a decrease (P < 0.05) in shrubs, semi-shrubs, and perennials forbs, and an increase (P < 0.05) in perennial bunchgrasses compared to the control. The coefficients of variation at plant functional group and species level in the LG and MG treatments were lower (P < 0.05) than in the control and HG treatments. Peak standing crop variability of the control and HG community were greatest, which suggested that LG and MG have greater ecosystem stability.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "Sheep", "Rain", "Mongolia", "15. Life on land", "Poaceae", "01 natural sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "Animals", "Herbivory", "Ecosystem"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Mengli Zhao, Xinjie Zhang, Guodong Han, Xiaoliang Wang, Walter D. Willms, Kris Havsatad, Zhongwu Wang, Yongzhi Liu, Haijun Ding, Shuying Jiao, Eldon L. Ayers, Lata A,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-013-0186-6"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s00267-013-0186-6", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s00267-013-0186-6", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s00267-013-0186-6"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-10-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s00344-006-0043-4", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-02T16:14:46Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2006-10-14", "title": "Nitrogen Metabolism And Photosynthesis In Leymus Chinensis In Response To Long-Term Soil Drought", "description": "Key enzyme activities related to nitrogen metabolism, gas-exchange, chlorophyll fluorescence, and lipid peroxidation were determined in Leymus chinensis (Trin.) Tzvel. plants under four soil moisture regimes (control: 75%\u201380% of field moisture capacity, mild drought: 60%\u201365%, and moderate drought: 50%\u201355% as well as severe drought: 35%\u201340%). Severe drought significantly decreased the key enzyme activities of nitrogen anabolism such as nitrate reductase (NR, EC 1.6.6.1), glutamine synthetase (GS, EC 6.3.1.2), and glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH, EC 1.4.1.2) but increased the key enzyme activities of nitrogen catabolism such as asparaginase (AS, EC 6.3.5.4) and endopeptidase (EP, EC 3.4.24.11), especially after long-term soil drought. Plant biomass, leaf-biomass ratio between the green leaf and total plant biomass, net photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance, the maximal efficiency of PSII photochemistry, the actual quantum yield, and the photochemical quenching were significantly reduced by severe water stress. Plant malondialdehyde (MDA) concentration increased with the increase in water stress, particularly at the late-growth stage. Our results suggest that the key enzymes of nitrogen metabolism may play an important role in the photosynthetic acclimation of L. chinensis plants to long-term soil drought.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "03 medical and health sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. 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In the present study we aimed to improve wheat growth under drought stress conditions through priming with beneficial bacteria considered as plant-growth promoting bacteria (PGPB). Two bacterial strains, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens 5113 and Azospirillum brasilense NO40, were used to prime the wheat cv. Sids1. To generate drought stress for 12-day-old seedlings, water was withheld for 4, 5, or 7 days while growth and survival were recorded. Furthermore, several stress markers were examined by molecular and biochemical assays to study the role of priming on different stress tolerance mechanisms. Priming significantly alleviated the deleterious effect of drought stress on wheat. Drought resulted in the upregulation of some stress-related genes (APX1, SAMS1, and HSP17.8) in the leaves and increased activity of enzymes involved in the plant ascorbate\u2013glutathione redox cycle. Bacteria-treated plants showed attenuated transcript levels suggesting improved homeostatic mechanisms due to priming. The present study reports on the ability of certain PGPB to attenuate several stress consequences in plants which strongly supports the potential of such an approach to control drought stress in wheat.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. 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Craib is an endemic and dominant species in typical subalpine dark coniferous forests distributed in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. To assess how A. fabri may respond and adapt to future climate changes, we investigated the effects of drought and warming on the growth, resource allocation in biomass, membrane stability, and oxidative stress of the seedlings over two growing seasons. Drought (11.4\u00a0% average reduction in soil moisture) was created by excluding natural precipitation with a plastic roof and warming was performed by an infrared heater above the plots. Drought increased root length, the root-to-shoot ratio, N concentration, and N/P ratio in all organs, and decreased seedling height and C/N ratio in all organs. Moreover, warming (2\u00a0\u00b0C) decreased seedling height, root length, total biomass, and N concentration in stems but increased the C/N ratio. Furthermore, the combination of drought and warming decreased seedling height and biomass in all organs, which further increased the N concentration and N/P ratio in all organs. A significant decrease in the membrane stability index and an increase in malondialdehyde, superoxide radical (O2 \u2212), and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) were exactly matched with a dramatic decrease of total biomass under the combination of drought and warming treatment. Together these results implied that drought alone and warming alone were unfavorable for the early growth of A. fabri, and drought plus warming will intensify the opposite effect of drought alone or warming alone. Moreover, N will be a limited nutrient under extant and future climate changes.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00344-012-9298-0"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Plant%20Growth%20Regulation", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s00344-012-9298-0", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s00344-012-9298-0", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s00344-012-9298-0"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-09-19T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s00374-006-0114-5", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-02T16:14:48Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2006-09-06", "title": "Response Of Ch4 Oxidation And Methanotrophic Diversity To Nh4 + And Ch4 Mixing Ratios", "description": "Methane oxidising activity and community structure of 11, specifically targeted, methanotrophic species have been examined in an arable soil. Soils were sampled from three different field plots, receiving no fertilisation (C), compost (G) and mineral fertiliser (M), respectively. Incubation experiments were carried out with and without pre-incubation at elevated CH4 mixing ratios (100\u00a0ml CH4 l\u22121) and with and without ammonium (100\u00a0mg N kg\u22121) pre-incubation. Four months after fertilisation, plots C, G and M did not show significant differences in physicochemical properties and CH4 oxidising activity. The total number of methanotrophs (determined as the sum the 11 specifically targeted methanotrophs) in the fresh soils was 17.0\u00d7106, 13.7\u00d7106 and 15.5\u00d7106 cells g\u22121 for treatment C, G and M, respectively. This corresponded to 0.11 to 0.32% of the total bacterial number. The CH4 oxidising activity increased 105-fold (20\u201326\u00a0mg CH4 g\u22121 h\u22121), the total number of methanotrophs doubled (28\u201376\u00d7106 cells g\u22121) and the methanotrophic diversity markedly increased in treatments with a pre-incubation at elevated CH4 concentrations. In all soils and treatments, type II methanotrophs (62\u201391%) outnumbered type I methanotrophs (9\u201338%). Methylocystis and Methylosinus species were always most abundant. After pre-incubation with ammonium, CH4 oxidation was completely inhibited; however, no change in the methanotrophic community structure could be detected.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "6. Clean water"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Irina V. Kravchenko, Pascal Boeckx, Valery F. Galchenko, S. A. Bykova, Oswald Van Cleemput,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-006-0114-5"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Biology%20and%20Fertility%20of%20Soils", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s00374-006-0114-5", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s00374-006-0114-5", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s00374-006-0114-5"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2006-09-07T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s00374-010-0449-9", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-02T16:14:48Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-03-01", "title": "Influence Of Different Litter Quality On The Abundance Of Genes Involved In Nitrification And Denitrification After Freezing And Thawing Of An Arable Soil", "description": "Due to disruption of soil aggregates and cell lysis and the subsequent release of organic C and N, increased microbial N transformation processes can be observed after freeze\u2013thaw cycles. In a microcosm study, we investigated the influence of plant residues with different C/N ratios (lucerne-clover-grass-mix and wheat straw) on N transformations and the abundance pattern of the corresponding functional genes in an arable soil after freezing and thawing. Unfrozen soil samples, continuously incubated at 10\u00b0C, served as control. Concentration of soil NH4+, NO3\u2212, and water-extractable organic C (WEOC) as well as genes involved in nitrification and denitrification, quantified by real-time PCR, were determined before freezing and 1, 3, and 7 days after thawing. The amounts of inorganic N and WEOC as well as the investigated gene abundance pattern did hardly differ between control samples and samples subjected to freezing and thawing that have been amended with straw. In contrast, clear alterations of the measured parameters and abundances were observed after freezing and thawing in samples being amended with the lucerne-clover-grass-mix compared to the control samples.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "03 medical and health sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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The wheat plants were grown in rhizoboxes allowing precise sampling of rhizosphere and bulk soil for sequential extraction of P fractions and determination of exchangeable Al. Root exudates were collected by pieces of paper for electrophoresis and subjected to HPLC analysis. Expression of organic anions and Pi transporter genes was analyzed by a real-time quantitative PCR. The concomitant application of lime with P fertilization increased the concentrations of plant-available P fractions in both rhizosphere and bulk compartments. The applied soil amendments strongly affected plant growth, biomass partitioning and shoot P accumulation. Liming enhanced root exudation of citrate in P unfertilized plants, while the high malate efflux was maintained until both P deficiency and Al toxicity were eliminated by the amendments. We showed the importance of liming for recovering of P acquisition potential of wheat roots, which can be strongly impaired in acid soils. Our results clearly demonstrated that P-deficient roots not subjected to Al stress in the limed soil can maintain high efflux of malate and even increase efflux of citrate along with the enhanced expression of related anion transporters (TaMATE1 and TaALMT1).", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "Wheat", "Rhizosphere", "Liming", "15. 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The impacts of N or P on ecosystem structure and function depend at least partly on the response of soil fungal communities, although few studies have compared the effects of N and P addition, both separately and together. We examined the responses of composition of the soil fungal community to 3-year experimental nutrient additions (control, N, N plus P, and P) in a typical alpine meadow of the QTP. We found that P addition, regardless of N addition, significantly reduced fungal species richness and changed fungal community composition, while the effect of N was undetectable. Nitrogen plus phosphorus caused a more distinct community than either N or P addition alone. Multivariate regression tree, canonical correspondence analysis, and distance-based multivariate linear model analyses all suggested available P was a key parameter determining the diversity and composition of the fungal community. Other parameters such as dissolved organic N, aboveground net primary productivity of forbs, and dissolved organic C played important but secondary roles. The results indicated an important role of P in structuring soil fungal communities in the alpine meadow. Our results suggest that fungal diversity loss and long-term changes in ecosystem stability can result from fertilization management in the fragile alpine environment.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "15. 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Soil pH was increased by ameliorants. Wheat biochar produced the largest increase, of approximately 2 pH units, and mixed treatment (one third rice husk biochar, one third lime, and one third organic fertilizer) also caused large increases, of almost 1 pH unit. There was strong evidence that the ratio of ammonia-oxidizing archaea to ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) abundance greatly increased with decreased soil pH, indicating that soil pH was an important factor affecting the abundance of AOB. High-throughput MiSeq sequencing showed that the soil ameliorants significantly increased the relative abundances of Nitrosomonas and Nitrospira. Soil pH was an important determinant of the bacterial community composition and diversity. Our study suggests that the ameliorants (biochar, lime, organic fertilizer, and their combinations) change soil nitrification by altering nitrifying bacteria abundance, diversity, and composition, caused by the changed soil pH.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. 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We conducted a field precipitation manipulation experiment in a subtropical forest to explore the impacts of reducing dry-season rainfall but increasing wet-season rainfall on soil microbial community composition and enzyme activities. A 67% reduction of throughfall during the dry season decreased soil water content (SWC) by 17\u201324% (P\u00a0<\u00a00.05), while the addition of water during the wet season had limited impacts on SWC. The seasonal precipitation redistribution had no significant effect on the microbial biomass and enzyme activities, as well as on the community composition measured with phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs). However, the amplicon sequencing revealed differentiated impacts on bacterial and fungal communities. The dry-season throughfall reduction increased the relative abundance of rare bacterial phyla (Gemmatimonadetes, Armatimonadetes, and Baoacteriodetes) that together accounted for only 1.5% of the total bacterial abundance by 15.8, 40, and 24% (P\u00a0<\u00a00.05), respectively. This treatment also altered the relative abundance of the two dominant fungal phyla (Basidiomycota and Ascomycota) that together accounted for 72.4% of the total fungal abundance. It increased the relative abundance of Basidiomycota by 27.4% while reduced that of Ascomycota by 32.6% (P\u00a0<\u00a00.05). Our results indicate that changes in precipitation seasonality can affect soil microbial community composition at lower taxon levels. The lack of community-level responses may be ascribed to the compositional adjustment among taxonomic groups and the confounding effects of other soil physicochemical variables such as temperature and substrate availability.", "keywords": ["[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "0301 basic medicine", "570", "[SDV.EE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology", " environment", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "[SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology", "[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "15. 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Conventional processing strategies for GC-MS data include baseline correction, feature detection, and retention time alignment before multivariate modeling. These techniques can be prone to errors and therefore time-consuming manual corrections are generally necessary. We introduce here a novel fully automated approach to non-targeted GC-MS data processing. This new approach avoids feature extraction and retention time alignment. Supervised machine learning on decomposed tensors of segmented chromatographic raw data signal is used to rank regions in the chromatograms contributing to differentiation between sample classes. The performance of this novel data analysis approach is demonstrated on three published datasets.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acax.2019.100005"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Analytica%20Chimica%20Acta%3A%20X", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.acax.2019.100005", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.acax.2019.100005", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.acax.2019.100005"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s00425-017-2647-2", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-02T16:14:52Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-01-04", "title": "The cost of surviving nitrogen excess: energy and protein demand in the lichen Cladonia portentosa as revealed by proteomic analysis", "description": "Different nitrogen forms affect different metabolic pathways in lichens. In particular, the most relevant changes in protein expression were observed in the fungal partner, with NO 3- mostly affecting the energetic metabolism and NH 4+ affecting transport and regulation of proteins and the energetic metabolism much more than NO 3- did. Excess deposition of reactive nitrogen is a well-known agent of stress for lichens, but which symbiont is most affected and how, remains a mystery. Using proteomics can expand our understanding of stress effects on lichens. We investigated the effects of different doses and forms of reactive nitrogen, with and without supplementary phosphorus and potassium, on the proteome of the lichen Cladonia portentosa growing in a 'real-world' simulation of nitrogen deposition. Protein expression changed with the nitrogen treatments but mostly in the fungal partner, with NO3- mainly affecting the energetic metabolism and NH4+ also affecting the protein synthesis machinery. The photobiont mainly responded overexpressing proteins involved in energy production. This suggests that in response to nitrogen stress, the photobiont mainly supports the defensive mechanisms initiated by the mycobiont with an increased energy production. Such surplus energy is then used by the cell to maintain functionality in the presence of NO3-, while a futile cycle of protein production can be hypothesized to be induced by NH4+ excess. External supply of potassium and phosphorus influenced differently the responses of particular enzymes, likely reflecting the many processes in which potassium exerts a regulatory function.", "keywords": ["Chlorophyll", "Proteomics", "0301 basic medicine", "570", "mycobiont", "Lichens", "Nitrogen", "Cell Respiration", "Nitrate", "Mass Spectrometry", "Molecular mechanism", "03 medical and health sciences", "nitrate", "Ammonia", "Electrophoresis", " Gel", " Two-Dimensional", "Photosynthesis", "Ammonium", " Molecular mechanism", " Mycobiont", " Nitrate", " Photobiont", " Stress response", "Ammonium; Molecular mechanism; Mycobiont; Nitrate; Photobiont; Stress response; Genetics; Plant Science", "0303 health sciences", "Nitrates", "Stress response", "Chlorophyll A", "stress response", "Mycobiont", "ammonium", "Photobiont", "photobiont", "molecular mechanism", "Energy Metabolism", "Ammonium"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00425-017-2647-2.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-017-2647-2"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Planta", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s00425-017-2647-2", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s00425-017-2647-2", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s00425-017-2647-2"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-01-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s00442-006-0458-4", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-02T16:14:53Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2006-05-30", "title": "Elevated [Co2] And Increased N Supply Reduce Leaf Disease And Related Photosynthetic Impacts On Solidago Rigida", "description": "To evaluate whether leaf spot disease and related effects on photosynthesis are influenced by increased nitrogen (N) input and elevated atmospheric CO(2) concentration ([CO(2)]), we examined disease incidence and photosynthetic rate of Solidago rigida grown in monoculture under ambient or elevated (560 micromol mol(-1)) [CO(2)] and ambient or elevated (+4 g N m(-2) year(-1)) N conditions in a field experiment in Minnesota, USA. Disease incidence was lower in plots with either elevated [CO(2)] or enriched N (-57 and -37%, respectively) than in plots with ambient conditions. Elevated [CO(2)] had no significant effect on total plant biomass, or on photosynthetic rate, but reduced tissue%N by 13%. In contrast, N fertilization increased both biomass and total plant N by 70%, and as a consequence tissue%N was unaffected and photosynthetic rate was lower on N fertilized plants than on unfertilized plants. Regardless of treatment, photosynthetic rate was reduced on leaves with disease symptoms. On average across all treatments, asymptomatic leaf tissue on diseased leaves had 53% lower photosynthetic rate than non-diseased leaves, indicating that the negative effect from the disease extended beyond the visual lesion area. Our results show that, in this instance, indirect effects from elevated [CO(2)], i.e., lower disease incidence, had a stronger effect on realized photosynthetic rate than the direct effect of higher [CO(2)].", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "Ascomycota", "Nitrogen", "13. 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Using data from a global survey, including 237 locations and multiple environmental predictors, we found that only ultraviolet light, forest environments, soil carbon and pH can be considered as significant and globally consistent predictors of soil bacterial diversity, valid within and across biomes (arid, temperate and continental). Bacterial diversity always peaked in grasslands, with moderate-to-low carbon and ultraviolet light levels, and high soil pH. Using these environmental data, we generated the first global predictive map of the distribution of soil bacterial diversity. Our work helps to identify a unique set of environmental attributes for universally predicting the distribution of soil bacterial diversity. This knowledge is key to help predict changes in ecosystem functioning and the provision of essential services under changing environments.", "keywords": ["Terrestrial ecosystems", "2. 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An experiment manipulating densities of the grasshopper Oedaleus asiaticus was performed to assess top-down effects of grasshoppers on C:N:P stoichiometry of plants and soil in a grassland ecosystem in Inner Mongolia (China). With increased grasshopper feeding, plant biomass declined fourfold, litter abundance increased 30%, and the plant community became dominated by non-host plant taxa. Plant stoichiometric response depended on whether or not the plant was a grasshopper host food species: C:N and C:P ratios increased with increasing grasshopper density (GD) for host plants but decreased in non-host plants. These data suggest either a direct transfer of grasshopper-recycled nutrients from host to non-host plants or a release of non-host plants from nutrient competition with heavily grazed host plants. Litterfall C:N and C:P decreased across moderate levels of grasshopper density but no effects on C:N:P stoichiometry in the surface soil were observed, possibly due to the short experimental period. Our observations of divergent C:N:P stoichiometric response among plant species highlight the important role of grasshopper herbivory in regulating plant community structure and nutrient cycling in grassland ecosystems.", "keywords": ["Male", "2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "Nitrogen", "Phosphorus", "Grasshoppers", "Mongolia", "Nitrogen Cycle", "Plants", "15. 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Understanding how plant production responds to both climate change and defoliation, and how this response varies among grassland types, is important for the long-term sustainability of grasslands. For 4 years, we manipulated temperature [ambient and increased using open-top chambers (OTC)], water (ambient, reduced using rainout shelters and increased using hand watering) and defoliation (clipped, and unclipped) in three grassland types along an elevation gradient. We monitored plant cover and biomass and found that OTC reduced biomass by 15%, but clipping and water treatments interacted with each other and their effects varied in different grassland types. For example, total biomass did not decline in the higher elevation grasslands due to clipping, and water addition mitigated the effects of clipping on subordinate grasses in the lower grasslands. The response of total biomass was driven by dominant plant species while subordinate grasses and forbs showed more variable responses. Overall, our results demonstrate that biomass in the highest elevation grassland was least effected by the treatments and the response of biomass tended to be dependent on interactions between climate change treatments and defoliation. Together, the results suggest that ecosystem function of these grasslands under altered climate patterns will be dependent on site-specific management.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "British Columbia", "Altitude", "Climate", "Climate Change", "Temperature", "Water", "15. Life on land", "Poaceae", "01 natural sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. 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Here, we aim to help filling this knowledge gap by using an 8-year field experiment in central Spain where temperature and rainfall are being manipulated (~\u20091.9\u00b0C warming, 33% rainfall reduction and their combination) in areas with and without well-developed biocrust communities. Areas with initial high cover of well-developed biocrusts showed lower N2O emissions, enhanced CH4 uptake and higher abundances of functional genes linked to N2O and CH4 fluxes compared with areas with poorly developed biocrusts. Moreover, biocrusts modulated the responses of gases emissions and related functional genes to warming and rainfall reductions. Specifically, we found under rainfall exclusion and its combination with warming a sharp reduction in N2O fluxes (~\u200996% and ~\u2009197%, respectively) only under well-developed biocrust cover. Warming and its combination with rainfall exclusion reduced CH4 consumption in areas with initial low cover of well-developed biocrust, whereas rainfall exclusion enhanced CH4 uptake only in areas with high initial cover of well-developed biocrusts. Similarly, the combination of warming and rainfall exclusion increased the abundance of the nosZ gene compared to the rainfall exclusion treatment and increased the abundance of the pmoA gene compared to the control, but only in areas with low biocrust cover. Taken together, our results indicate that well-developed biocrust communities could counteract the impact of warming and altered rainfall patterns on soil N2O and CH4 fluxes, highlighting their importance and the need to preserve them to minimize climate change impacts on drylands. A. L. is supported by a FPI fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (BES-2014-067831). M.D-B. acknowledges support from the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme H2020-MSCA-IF-2016 under REA Grant Agreement No. 702057 (CLIMIFUN) and the BES Grant Agreement No. LRA17 1193 (MUSGONET). J.D acknowledges support from the Funda\u00e7\u00e3o para Ci\u00eancia e Tecnologia (IF/00950/2014) and the FEDER, within the PT2020 Partnership Agreement and COMPETE 2020 (UID/BIA/04004/2013). This research was supported by the European Research Council (ERC Grant Agreements 242658 [BIOCOM] and 647038 [BIODESERT]), by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (BIOMOD project, ref. CGL2013-44661-R and AGL2015-64582-C3-3-R project) and by the Comunidad de Madrid and European Structural and Investment Funds (AGRISOST-CM S2013/ABI-2717). F.T.M. acknowledges support from Generalitat Valenciana (BIOMORES project, ref. CIDEGENT/2018/041). B.K.S research on the topic of biodiversity and ecosystem functions is funded by Australian Research Council (DP170104634).", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "arid regions", "Nitrous oxide", "nitrous oxide", "Mediterranean Region", "methane", "Ecolog\u00eda", "15. Life on land", "climatic changes", "Dryland", "03 medical and health sciences", "Methanotrophs", "13. 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Subsequent attempts to restore those trace element-contaminated soils have involved physical, chemical, or biological methodologies. In this study, the restoration approach included application of different types and doses of organic amendments: biosolid compost (BC) and leonardite (LEO). Twelve years after the last addition, molecular analyses of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal communities associated with target plants (Lamarckia aurea and Chrysanthemum coronarium) as well as analyses of trace element concentrations both in soil and in plants were performed. The results showed an improved soil quality reflected by an increase in soil pH and a decrease in trace element availability as a result of the amendments and dosages. Additionally, the phylogenetic diversity of the AM fungal community increased, reaching the maximum diversity at the highest dose of BC. Trace element concentration was considered the predominant soil factor determining the AM fungal community composition. Thereby, the studied AM fungal community reflects a community adapted to different levels of contamination as a result of the amendments. The study highlights the long-term effect of the amendments in stabilizing the soil system.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "Minerals", "0303 health sciences", "Bioindicator", "Chrysanthemum", "Genetic Variation", "Hydrogen-Ion Concentration", "15. Life on land", "Poaceae", "Soil biodiversity", "Trace element contaminated soils", "Ecosystem restoration", "Mining", "Soil fungal community", "Trace Elements", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "Biodegradation", " Environmental", "13. 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