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The calves were divided into treatment (T-group) and control (C-group) groups, where the T-group received fresh rumen liquid as an oral inoculum during a 2\uffe2\uff80\uff938-week period. The C-group was not inoculated. The rumen microbial community composition was determined using bacterial and archaeal 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene, protozoal 18S rRNA gene, and fungal ITS1 region amplicon sequencing. Animal weight gain and feed intake were monitored throughout the experiment. The T-group tended to have a higher concentrate intake (Treatment: p &amp;lt; 0.08) and had a significantly higher weekly weight gain (Treatment: p &amp;lt; 0.05), but no significant difference in volatile fatty acid concentrations between the groups was observed. In the T-group, the inoculum stimulated the earlier establishment of mature rumen-related bacterial taxa, affecting significant differences between the groups until 6 weeks of age. The inoculum also increased the archaeal operational taxonomic unit (OTU) diversity (Treatment: p &amp;lt; 0.05) but did not affect the archaeal quantity. Archaeal communities differed significantly between groups until week 4 (p = 0.02). Due to the inoculum, ciliate protozoa were detected in the T-group in week 2, while the C-group remained defaunated until 6 weeks of age. In week 8, Eremoplastron dilobum was the dominant ciliate protozoa in the C-group and Isotricha sp. in the T-group, respectively. The Shannon diversity of rumen anaerobic fungi reduced with age (Week: p &amp;lt; 0.01), and community establishment was influenced by a change of diet and potential interaction with other rumen microorganisms. Our results indicate that an adult cow rumen liquid inoculum enhanced the maturation of bacterial and archaeal communities in pre-weaning calves\uffe2\uff80\uff99 rumen, whereas its effect on eukaryotic communities was less clear and requires further investigation.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "570", "Anaerobic fungi", "microbiome establishment", "archaea", "Rumen function", "Microbiome manipulation", "Microbiology", "630", "Microbiome establishment", "ciliate protozoa", "03 medical and health sciences", "Dairy calf", "anaerobic fungi", "bacteria", "[SDV.MP] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology", "2. 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In this follow-up study, we examined the post-weaning rumen microbiota development differences in monozygotic twin-heifers that were inoculated (T-group) or not inoculated (C-group) (n\uffe2\uff80\uff89=\uffe2\uff80\uff894 each) with fresh adult rumen liquid during their pre-weaning period. We also assessed the treatment effect on production parameters and methane emissions of cows during their 1st lactation period. The rumen microbiota was determined by the 16S rRNA gene, 18S rRNA gene, and ITS1 amplicon sequencing. Animal weight gain and rumen fermentation parameters were monitored from 2 to 12\uffe2\uff80\uff89months of age. The weight gain was not affected by treatment, but butyrate proportion was higher in T-group in month 3 (p\uffe2\uff80\uff89=\uffe2\uff80\uff890.04). Apart from archaea (p\uffe2\uff80\uff89=\uffe2\uff80\uff890.084), the richness of bacteria (p\uffe2\uff80\uff89&amp;lt;\uffe2\uff80\uff890.0001) and ciliate protozoa increased until month 7 (p\uffe2\uff80\uff89=\uffe2\uff80\uff890.004) and anaerobic fungi until month 11 (p\uffe2\uff80\uff89=\uffe2\uff80\uff890.005). The microbiota structure, measured as Bray\uffe2\uff80\uff93Curtis distances, continued to develop until months 3, 6, 7, and 10, in archaea, ciliate protozoa, bacteria, and anaerobic fungi, respectively (for all: p\uffe2\uff80\uff89=\uffe2\uff80\uff890.001). Treatment or age \uffc3\uff97 treatment interaction had a significant (p\uffe2\uff80\uff89&amp;lt;\uffe2\uff80\uff890.05) effect on 18 bacterial, 2 archaeal, and 6 ciliate protozoan taxonomic groups, with differences occurring mostly before month 4 in bacteria, and month 3 in archaea and ciliate protozoa. Treatment stimulated earlier maturation of prokaryote community in T-group before month 4 and earlier maturation of ciliate protozoa at month 2 (Random Forest: 0.75\uffe2\uff80\uff89month for bacteria and 1.5\uffe2\uff80\uff89month for protozoa). No treatment effect on the maturity of anaerobic fungi was observed. The milk production and quality, feed efficiency, and methane emissions were monitored during cow\uffe2\uff80\uff99s 1st lactation. The T-group had lower variation in energy-corrected milk yield (p\uffe2\uff80\uff89&amp;lt;\uffe2\uff80\uff890.001), tended to differ in pattern of residual energy intake over time (p\uffe2\uff80\uff89=\uffe2\uff80\uff890.069), and had numerically lower somatic cell count throughout their 1st lactation period (p\uffe2\uff80\uff89=\uffe2\uff80\uff890.081), but no differences between the groups in methane emissions (g/d, g/kg DMI, or g/kg milk) were observed. Our results demonstrated that the orally administered microbial inoculant induced transient changes in early rumen microbiome maturation. In addition, the treatment may influence the later production performance, although the mechanisms that mediate these effects need to be further explored.</p>", "keywords": ["microbiome modulation", "0301 basic medicine", "570", "ta412", "microbiome establishment", "Heifer", "dairy cow", "Rumen function", "Animal science", " dairy science", "Microbiology", "630", "Microbiome modulation", "QR1-502", "rumen function", "Microbiome establishment", "03 medical and health sciences", "Dairy cow", "heifer"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.983823"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Microbiology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3389/fmicb.2022.983823", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2022.983823", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2022.983823"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-11-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10449/91579", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:22:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-07-22", "title": "The blueberry phyllosphere microbiota: tissue-specific core communities and their stability across cultivars and years", "description": "Blueberries are critical for food production due to their widespread consumption and nutritional value. Beyond agriculture, wild Vaccinium species play essential ecological roles, including supporting pollinators and enhancing soil health. This dual importance underscores their relevance to both food security and ecosystem sustainability. The fruit-associated microbiome, both internal and surface-dwelling, includes a wide range of microorganisms. These microbial communities play a dual role: they influence fruit quality (e.g., taste, texture, shelf life) and are also involved in the degradation processes that occur during fruit senescence or postharvest storage.\u201d. Despite their importance, the specific factors shaping the microbiomes of blueberry fruits, as well as their relationship with other above-ground parts of the plant and their stability over different years, remain poorly understood. We conducted a field experiment to characterize the taxonomic composition of fungal and bacterial communities colonizing the leaves and the surface and pulp of fruits on a collection of 10 different cultivars of blueberry over two years. Independently from the sampling time, pulp of the fruit, surface and leaves harbor specific and distinct microbiomes. A major factor determining the microbiome of blueberry fruits and leaves was plant cultivar, followed by tissue. We further identified the core microbiome for each plant tissue and demonstrated that core taxa account for the dominant fraction of the microbiota of each plant. As trade and production of blueberries is expanding, our results provide a foundation for advancing the development of targeted microbiome management strategies, with potential applications in enhancing plant health and productivity. 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The present study evaluated the effect of a cereal ammoniation treatment, in which barley grains are combined with urea and enzymes that catalyze the conversion of urea to ammonia to optimize rumen function. Twelve rumen cannulated sheep were randomly divided into two groups and fed a diet containing 60% of ammoniated barley (AMM) or untreated barley supplemented with urea (CTL) to investigate the impact on rumen fermentation and feed utilization.</p>RESULTS<p>AMM had higher total N content and effective rumen degradable N than untreated barely. AMM sheep had a consistently higher rumen pH throughout the day (6.31 versus 6.03) and tended to have a lower post\uffe2\uff80\uff90prandial ammonia peak and higher acetate molar proportion (+5.1%) than CTL sheep. The rumen environment in AMM sheep favored the colonization and utilization of agro\uffe2\uff80\uff90industrial by\uffe2\uff80\uff90products (i.e. orange pulp) by the rumen microbes leading to a higher feed degradability. AMM sheep also had higher total tract apparent N digestibility (+21.7%) and urinary excretion of purine derivatives (+34%), suggesting a higher N uptake and microbial protein synthesis than CTL sheep.</p>CONCLUSION<p>The inclusion of AMM in the diet of ruminants represents a valid strategy for maintaining rumen pH within a physiological range and improving N utilization by the rumen microbes, which could have positive effects on the health and productivity of animals in intensive production systems. These findings warrant further studies under conventional farm conditions. \uffc2\uffa9 2021 The Authors. Journal of The Science of Food and Agriculture published by John Wiley &amp; Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Chemical Industry.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Rumen", "Sheep", "Bacteria", "Food Handling", "0402 animal and dairy science", "Hordeum", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Hydrogen-Ion Concentration", "Animal Feed", "Diet", "Gastrointestinal Microbiome", "Bacterial Proteins", "Ammonia", "Barley", "Rumen fermentation", "Animals", "Urea", "Ammoniation", "Digestion", "Feed utilization", "Research Articles"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/235892/1/235892.pdf"}, {"href": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jsfa.11205"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.11205"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20the%20Science%20of%20Food%20and%20Agriculture", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1002/jsfa.11205", "name": "item", "description": "10.1002/jsfa.11205", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1002/jsfa.11205"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-03-24T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s00018-021-04080-6", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:14:26Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-01-19", "title": "Outlook on next\u2010generation probiotics from the human gut", "description": "Probiotics currently available on the market generally belong to a narrow range of microbial species. 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. Good health", "03 medical and health sciences", "Akkermansia muciniphila; Faecalibacterium prausnitzii; Gut microbiome; Live biotherapeutics; Next-generation probiotics; Prevotella copri", "Live biotherapeutics", "Dysbiosis", "Humans", "Prevotella copri", "Akkermansia muciniphila"], "contacts": [{"organization": "De Filippis F., Esposito A., Ercolini D.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.iris.unina.it/bitstream/11588/868940/2/CMLS%2c2022_NGP.pdf"}, {"href": "https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00018-021-04080-6.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00018-021-04080-6"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Cellular%20and%20Molecular%20Life%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s00018-021-04080-6", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s00018-021-04080-6", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s00018-021-04080-6"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-01-19T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s10123-021-00215-8", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:14:38Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-10-23", "title": "Novel methods of microbiome analysis in the food industry", "description": "The study of the food microbiome has gained considerable interest in recent years, mainly due to the wide range of applications that can be derived from the analysis of metagenomes. Among these applications, it is worth mentioning the possibility of using metagenomic analyses to determine food authenticity, to assess the microbiological safety of foods thanks to the detection and tracking of pathogens, antibiotic resistance genes and other undesirable traits, as well to identify the microorganisms responsible for food processing defects. Metataxonomics and metagenomics are currently the gold standard methodologies to explore the full potential of metagenomes in the food industry. However, there are still a number of challenges that must be solved in order to implement these methods routinely in food chain monitoring, and for the regulatory agencies to take them into account in their opinions. These challenges include the difficulties of analysing foods and food-related environments with a low microbial load, the lack of validated bioinformatics pipelines adapted to food microbiomes and the difficulty of assessing the viability of the detected microorganisms. This review summarizes the methods of microbiome analysis that have been used, so far, in foods and food-related environments, with a specific focus on those involving Next-Generation Sequencing technologies.", "keywords": ["2. 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A soil-to-food analysis", "description": "Despite the social concern about the generalization of antibiotic resistance hotspots worldwide, very little is known about the contribution of different potential sources to the global risk. Here we present a quantitative analysis of the distribution of Antibiotic Resistance Genes (ARGs) in soil, rhizospheric soil, roots, leaves and beans in tomato, lettuce and broad beans crops (165 samples in total), grown in nine commercial plots distributed in four geographical zones in the vicinity of Barcelona (North East Spain). We also analyzed five soil samples from a nearby forest, with no record of agricultural activities. DNA samples were analyzed for their content in the ARGs sul1, tetM, qnrS1, blaCTX-M-32, blaOXA-58, mecA, and blaTEM, plus the integron intI1, using qPCR methods. In addition, soil microbiomes from the different plots were analyzed by amplicon-targeted 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Our data show a decreasing gradient of ARG loads from soil to fruits and beans, the latter showing only from 0.1 to 0.01% of the abundance values in soil. The type of crop was the main determinant for both ARG distribution and microbiome composition among the different plots, with minor contributions of geographic location and irrigation water source. We propose that soil amendment and/or fertilization, more than irrigation water, are the main drivers of ARG loads on the edible parts of the crop, and that they should therefore be specifically controlled.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "Microbiomes", "Agriculture", "Drug Resistance", " Microbial", "Irrigation water", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Anti-Bacterial Agents", "3. 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These complex microbial consortia may include microbial spoilers, pathogens, as well as beneficial microbes.  Advances in sequencing technologies and metagenomics provide the opportunity to map the environmental microbiome in food industries at an unprecedented depth, highlighting the importance of the resident microbial communities in influencing food quality and safety, as well as the main factors shaping its composition and activities. However, specific technical issues must be considered. Although microbiome mapping in the food industry has the potential to revolutionize food safety and quality management systems, its application as routine practice is still challenging and technical issues limit the exploitation of the powerful information that can be obtained by the application of such state-of-the-art approaches.", "keywords": ["Aurora Universities Network", "0301 basic medicine", "2. 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Analyzing reference Faecalibacterium genomes and almost 3,000 Faecalibacterium-like metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) reconstructed from 7,907 human and 203 non-human primate gut metagenomes, we identified the presence of 22 different Faecalibacterium-like species-level genome bins (SGBs), some further divided in different strains according to the subject geographical origin. Twelve SGBs are globally spread in the human gut and show different genomic potential in the utilization of complex polysaccharides, suggesting that higher SGB diversity may be related with increased utilization of plant-based foods. Moreover, up to 11 different species may co-occur in the same subject, with lower diversity in Western populations, as well as intestinal inflammatory states and obesity. The newly explored Faecalibacterium diversity will be able to support the choice of strains suitable as NGPs, guided by the consideration of the differences existing in their functional potential.", "keywords": ["Adult", "0301 basic medicine", "pangenome", "Adolescent", "gut microbiome", "Datasets as Topic", "General Biochemistry", " Genetics and Molecular Biology", "Innovation action", "Feces", "03 medical and health sciences", "Animals", "Humans", "biotherapeutics", "European Commission", "Child", "Life Style", "Faecalibacterium", "Aged", "Aurora Universities Network", "Horizon 2020", "0303 health sciences", "EC", "Geography", "Faecalibacterium prausnitzii", "H2020", "Age Factors", "Infant", "Middle Aged", "Gastrointestinal Microbiome", "Faecalibacterium prausnitzii", " gut microbiome", " strain diversity", " pangenome", " novel probiotics", " biotherapeutics", "Child", " Preschool", "novel probiotics", "Dysbiosis", "Macaca", "Metagenome", "strain diversity", "Metagenomics", "General Agricultural and Biological Sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.iris.unina.it/bitstream/11588/819607/1/PIIS0960982220314330.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.09.063"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Current%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.cub.2020.09.063", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.cub.2020.09.063", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.cub.2020.09.063"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.ejsobi.2021.103314", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:15:34Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-04-19", "title": "Long-term impacts of organic and conventional farming on the soil microbiome in boreal arable soil", "description": "Long-term effects of organic and conventional farming systems in parallel on the microbiota of boreal arable soil from forage and cereal crop fields were investigated. Microbial activity was measured as basal respiration and microbial biomass C and N were determined by fumigation extraction. Microbial abundance was determined by gene copy numbers from bacterial and archaeal specific 16S rRNA genes and the fungal ITS2 region with quantitative PCR. Microbial community composition for soil bacteria and fungi, including arbuscular mycorrhiza, were conducted by amplicon sequencing with richness assessed from OTU reads. We detected changes in both bacterial and fungal community composition between the farming systems. Microbial activity and biomass C and N were higher in the organic system for cereal crop rotation compared to the respective conventional system. In the autumn, organic systems had higher microbial richness. As fungi were more abundant in the autumn, they may be responsible for both higher microbial activity and C sequestration in their biomass after harvesting, especially in the organic system for cereal crop rotation. Also, crop type and cow manure explained changes in fungal community composition. The typical bacterial community of the organic system for cereal crop rotation included many soil and plant health promoting bacterial groups. Fungi benefiting from organic farming practices, other than manure, may include endophytic taxa with a variety of functions as well as pathogenic and mycotoxin producing species. Overall, the results suggest that farming practices typical of organic farming, such as use of green manure and continuous plant cover have induced changes in the soil microbiome.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "330", "Soil biology", "13. Climate action", "ta1181", "microbiome", "organic farms", "15. Life on land", "630", "Farming Systems"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2021.103314"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/European%20Journal%20of%20Soil%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.ejsobi.2021.103314", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.ejsobi.2021.103314", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2021.103314"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s40793-023-00479-9", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:18:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-03-30", "title": "Abundance, classification and genetic potential of Thaumarchaeota in metagenomes of European agricultural soils: a meta-analysis", "description": "Abstract                 Background                 <p>For a sustainable production of food, research on agricultural soil microbial communities is inevitable. Due to its immense complexity, soil is still some kind of black box. Soil study designs for identifying microbiome members of relevance have various scopes and focus on particular environmental factors. To identify common features of soil microbiomes, data from multiple studies should be compiled and processed. Taxonomic compositions and functional capabilities of microbial communities associated with soils and plants have been identified and characterized in the past few decades. From a fertile Loess\uffe2\uff80\uff93Chernozem-type soil located in Germany, metagenomically assembled genomes (MAGs) classified as members of the phylum Thaumarchaeota/Thermoproteota were obtained. These possibly represent keystone agricultural soil community members encoding functions of relevance for soil fertility and plant health. Their importance for the analyzed microbiomes is corroborated by the fact that they were predicted to contribute to the cycling of nitrogen, feature the genetic potential to fix carbon dioxide and possess genes with predicted functions in plant-growth-promotion (PGP). To expand the knowledge on soil community members belonging to the phylum Thaumarchaeota, we conducted a meta-analysis integrating primary studies on European agricultural soil microbiomes.</p>                                Results                 <p>Taxonomic classification of the selected soil metagenomes revealed the shared agricultural soil core microbiome of European soils from 19 locations. Metadata reporting was heterogeneous between the different studies. According to the available metadata, we separated the data into 68 treatments. The phylum Thaumarchaeota is part of the core microbiome and represents a major constituent of the archaeal subcommunities in all European agricultural soils. At a higher taxonomic resolution, 2074 genera constituted the core microbiome. We observed that viral genera strongly contribute to variation in taxonomic profiles. By binning of metagenomically assembled contigs, Thaumarchaeota MAGs could be recovered from several European soil metagenomes. Notably, many of them were classified as members of the family Nitrososphaeraceae, highlighting the importance of this family for agricultural soils. The specific Loess-Chernozem Thaumarchaeota MAGs were most abundant in their original soil, but also seem to be of importance in other agricultural soil microbial communities. Metabolic reconstruction of Switzerland_1_MAG_2 revealed its genetic potential i.a. regarding carbon dioxide (CO$$_2$$                                                                   2                                        ) fixation, ammonia oxidation, exopolysaccharide production and a beneficial effect on plant growth. Similar genetic features were also present in other reconstructed MAGs. Three Nitrososphaeraceae MAGs are all most likely members of a so far unknown genus.</p>                                Conclusions                 <p>On a broad view, European agricultural soil microbiomes are similarly structured. Differences in community structure were observable, although analysis was complicated by heterogeneity in metadata recording. Our study highlights the need for standardized metadata reporting and the benefits of networking open data. Future soil sequencing studies should also consider high sequencing depths in order to enable reconstruction of genome bins. Intriguingly, the family Nitrososphaeraceae commonly seems to be of importance in agricultural microbiomes.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "570", "Soil microbial diversity", "Metagenomically assembled genomes", "Research", "European soil", "Open metagenome data analysis", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "Thaumarchaeota", "QR1-502", "Environmental sciences", "Agricultural microbiome", "Soil health", "GE1-350"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s40793-023-00479-9.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-023-00479-9"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Microbiome", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s40793-023-00479-9", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s40793-023-00479-9", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s40793-023-00479-9"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-03-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.121711", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:15:57Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-11-17", "title": "Effects of plastic mulch film residues on wheat rhizosphere and soil properties", "description": "Plastic residues could accumulate in soils as a consequence of using plastic mulching, which results in a serious environmental concern for agroecosystems. As an alternative, biodegradable plastic films stand as promising products to minimize plastic debris accumulation and reduce soil pollution. However, the effects of residues from traditional and biodegradable plastic films on the soil-plant system are not well studied. In this study, we used a controlled pot experiment to investigate the effects of macro- and micro- sized residues of low-density polyethylene and biodegradable plastic mulch films on the rhizosphere bacterial communities, rhizosphere volatile profiles and soil chemical properties. Interestingly, we identified significant effects of biodegradable plastic residues on the rhizosphere bacterial communities and on the blend of volatiles emitted in the rhizosphere. For example, in treatments with biodegradable plastics, bacteria genera like Bacillus and Variovorax were present in higher relative abundances and volatile compounds like dodecanal were exclusively produced in treatment with biodegradable microplastics. Furthermore, significant differences in soil pH, electrical conductivity and C:N ratio were observed across treatments. Our study provides evidence for both biotic and abiotic impacts of plastic residues on the soil-plant system, suggesting the urgent need for more research examining their environmental impacts on agroecosystems.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Volatile Organic Compounds", "Bacteria", "Microplastics", "national", "Plan_S-Compliant_NO", "Biodegradable Plastics", "Biodegradable plastics", "01 natural sciences", "Rhizosphere microbiome", "Soil", "Polyethylene", "13. Climate action", "Rhizosphere", "Soil Pollutants", "Soil properties", "Volatile organic compounds", "Biomass", "Triticum", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.121711"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Hazardous%20Materials", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.121711", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.121711", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.121711"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/s41598-019-50839-0", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:16:49Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-10-04", "title": "Understanding the phyllosphere microbiome assemblage in grape species (<em>Vitaceae</em>) with amplicon sequence data structures", "description": "Abstract<p>Impacts of plant genotype on microbial assemblage in the phyllosphere (above-ground parts of plants, which predominantly consists of the set of photosynthetic leaves) of Vitis vinifera cultivars have been studied previously but the impact of grape species (under the grape family Vitaceae) was never investigated. Considering the fact, that the phyllosphere microbiome may have profound effects on host plant health and its performance traits, studying the impact of grape species in microbial taxa structuring in the phyllosphere could be of crucial importance. We performed 16S and ITS profiling (for bacteria and fungi respectively) to access genus level characterization of the microflora present in the leaf phyllosphere of five species within this plant family, sampled in two successive years from the repository situated in the Mediterranean. We also performed \uffce\uffb1 and \uffce\uffb2-diversity analyses with robust statistical estimates to test the impacts of grape species and growing year, over a two-year period. Our results indicated the presence of complex microbial diversity and assemblages in the phyllosphere with a significant effect of both factors (grape species and growing year), the latter effect is being more pronounced. We also compared separate normalization methods for high-throughput microbiome data-sets followed by differential taxa abundance analyses. The results suggested the predominance of a particular normalization method over others. This also indicated the need for more robust normalization methods to study the differential taxa abundance among groups in microbiome research.</p>", "keywords": ["580", "2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "Vegetal Biology", "Bacteria", "Microbiota", "Fungi", "microbiome", "15. Life on land", "Article", "Plant Leaves", "03 medical and health sciences", "vitis vinifera", "diversit\u00e9 microbienne", "phyllosphere", "[SDV.BV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology", "[SDV.BV] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology", "effet g\u00e9notype", "Vitis", "Biologie v\u00e9g\u00e9tale", "Phylogeny"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-50839-0.pdf"}, {"href": "https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-02617774/file/2019_Singh_Scientific%20Reports_1.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50839-0"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Scientific%20Reports", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/s41598-019-50839-0", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/s41598-019-50839-0", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/s41598-019-50839-0"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-10-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.268", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:16:06Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-10-22", "title": "Antibiotic resistance genes distribution in microbiomes from the soil-plant-fruit continuum in commercial Lycopersicon esculentum fields under different agricultural practices", "description": "While the presence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in agricultural soils and products has been firmly established, their distribution among the different plant parts and the contribution of agricultural practices, including irrigation with reclaimed water, have not been adequately addressed yet. To this end, we analyzed the levels of seven ARGs (sul1, blaTEM, blaCTX-M-32, mecA, qnrS1, tetM, blaOXA-58), plus the integrase gene intl1, in soils, roots, leaves, and fruits from two commercial tomato fields irrigated with either unpolluted groundwater or from a channel impacted by treated wastewater, using culture-independent, quantitative real-time PCR methods. ARGs and intl1 sequences were found in leaves and fruits at levels representing from 1 to 10% of those found in roots or soil. The relative abundance of intl1 sequences correlated with tetM, blaTEM, and sul1 levels, suggesting a high horizontal mobility potential for these ARGs. High-throughput 16S rDNA sequencing revealed microbiome differences both between sample types (soil plus roots versus leaves plus fruits) and sampling zones, and a correlation between the prevalence of Pseudomonadaceae and the levels of different ARGs, particularly in fruits and leaves. We concluded that both microbiome composition and ARGs levels in plants parts, including fruits, were likely influenced by agricultural practices.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Antibiotic resistance", "Microbiota", "Microbiomes", "Agriculture", "Drug Resistance", " Microbial", "Horizontal gene transfer", "Irrigation water", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "qPCR", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "Solanum lycopersicum", "Genes", " Bacterial", "Fruit", "Soil Microbiology", "Environmental Monitoring"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.268"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Science%20of%20The%20Total%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.268", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.268", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.268"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154405", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:16:07Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-03-08", "title": "Pedogenesis shapes predator-prey relationships within soil microbiomes", "description": "Pedogenesis determines soil physicochemical properties and many biodiversity facets, including belowground microbial bacteria and fungi. At the local scale, top-down predation by microbial protists regulates the soil microbiome, while the microbiome also affects protistan communities. However, it remains unknown how pedogenesis affects protistan communities and the potential protist-microbiome predator-prey relationships. With 435 soil samples representing different stages of pedogenesis ranging in soil age from centuries to millennia, we examined the influence of pedogenesis on the main protistan groups, and the interrelationships between protistan predators and microbial prey biomass. We revealed an enrichment in the diversity of total protists across pedogenesis and increasing richness of phototrophic protists in the medium compared with the early stages of pedogenesis. The richness of predatory protists accumulated throughout pedogenesis, which was more strongly determined by microbial biomass than environmental factors. Predator-prey associations were stronger in the young and the medium soils than in the older soils, likely because prey biomass accumulated in the latter and might be no longer limit predators. Together, our work provides evidence that pedogenesis shapes predatory protists differently than their prey, leading to shifts in predator-prey relationships. This knowledge is critical to better understand how soil food webs develop across soil development which might lead to changes in ecosystem functions.", "keywords": ["Predator-prey relationships", "2. Zero hunger", "Food Chain", "Microbiota", "Microbial biomass", "Eukaryota", "Biodiversity", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Soil", "Soil formation", "13. Climate action", "Predatory Behavior", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "Chronosequences", "Protistan predators", "Animals", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Microbiome"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154405"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Science%20of%20The%20Total%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154405", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154405", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154405"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165179", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:16:07Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-06-28", "title": "Intensive vegetable production under plastic mulch: A field study on soil plastic and pesticide residues and their effects on the soil microbiome", "description": "Intensive agriculture relies on external inputs to reach high productivity and profitability. Plastic mulch, mainly in the form of Low-Density Polyethylene (LDPE), is widely used in agriculture to decrease evaporation, increase soil temperature and prevent weeds. The incomplete removal of LDPE mulch after use causes plastic contamination in agricultural soils. In conventional agriculture, the use of pesticides also leaves residues accumulating in soils. Thus, the objective of this study was to measure plastic and pesticide residues in agricultural soils and their effects on the soil microbiome. For this, we sampled soil (0-10\u00a0cm and 10-30\u00a0cm) from 18 parcels from 6 vegetable farms in SE Spain. The farms were under either organic or conventional management, where plastic mulch had been used for >25\u00a0years. We measured the macro- and micro-light density plastic debris contents, the pesticide residue levels, and a range of physiochemical properties. We also carried out DNA sequencing on the soil fungal and bacterial communities. Plastic debris (>100\u00a0\u03bcm) was found in all samples with an average number of 2\u00a0\u00d7\u00a0103\u00a0particles\u00a0kg-1 and area of 60\u00a0cm2\u00a0kg-1. We found 4-10 different pesticide residues in all conventional soils, for an average of 140\u00a0\u03bcg\u00a0kg-1. Overall, pesticide content was \u223c100 times lower in organic farms. The soil microbiomes were farm-specific and related to different soil physicochemical parameters and contaminants. Regarding contaminants, bacterial communities responded to the total pesticide residues, the fungicide Azoxystrobin and the insecticide Chlorantraniliprole as well as the plastic area. The fungicide Boscalid was the only contaminant to influence the fungal community. The wide spread of plastic and pesticide residues in agricultural soil and their effects on soil microbial communities may impact crop production and other environmental services. More studies are required to evaluate the total costs of intensive agriculture.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Plastic mulch", "Soil microbiome", "Microbiota", "Microplastic", "Pesticide Residues", "Pesticides residues", "Agriculture", "12. Garantizar modalidades de consumo y producci\u00f3n sostenibles", "15. Life on land", "Fungicides", " Industrial", "Edafolog\u00eda y Qu\u00edmica Agr\u00edcola", "Soil", "Intensive vegetable production", "13. Climate action", "Agriculture contamination", "Polyethylene", "Vegetables", "31 Ciencias Agrarias::3101 Agroqu\u00edmica", "Pesticides"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165179"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Science%20of%20The%20Total%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165179", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165179", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165179"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167674", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:16:08Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-10-07", "title": "Outdoor climate drives diversity patterns of dominant microbial taxa in caves worldwide", "description": "The cave microbiota is assumed to be shaped by indoor microclimate, biotic and abiotic factors, which are largely dependent from outside environmental conditions; however, this knowledge is available at local or regional scales only. To address this knowledge gap, we reanalyzed over 1050 bacterial and fungal communities of caves worldwide, and found that outdoor temperature and rainfall play a critical role in explaining differences in microbial diversity patterns of global caves, selecting specific dominant taxa across gradients of growing aridity conditions with arid climate leading to a reduction in total cave microbial diversity. Moreover, we found that fungal (from 186 to 1908 taxa) and bacterial (from 467 to 1619 taxa) diversity increased under temperate-tropical and temperate-continental climatic regions, respectively, highlighting an opposite preference for the two microbial compartments. We hypothesized that outdoor geographical, climatic variables and lithology are critical epistatic drivers in assembling microbial communities and their dominant taxa, whose ecological responses could be useful to predict the fate of these subterranean environments in the context of climate change. Our work elucidates the intimate connection between caves microbiota and surface ecosystems highlighting the sensitivity of cave microbial communities to climatic changes and environmental degradation. This work also provides a natural benchmark for the biogeographic information for caves globally and for protection strategies aiming at conservation of underground environments.", "keywords": ["Cave ecosystems", "Bacteria", "Geography", "Microbiota", "Microbiomes", "15. Life on land", "Microbial ecology", "Caves", "13. Climate action", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "Climate change", "Environmental drivers", "Top dominant species", "Mycobiome"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167674"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Science%20of%20The%20Total%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167674", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167674", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167674"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168050", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:16:08Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-10-28", "title": "Geology and elevation shape bacterial assembly in Antarctic endolithic communities", "description": "Ice free areas of continental Antarctica are among the coldest and driest environments on Earth, and yet, they support surprisingly diverse and highly adapted microbial communities. Endolithic growth is one of the key adaptations to such extreme environments and often represents the dominant life-form. Despite growing scientific interest, little is known of the mechanisms that influence the assembly of endolithic microbiomes across these harsh environments. Here, we used metagenomics to examine the diversity and assembly of endolithic bacterial communities across Antarctica within different rock types and over a large elevation range. While granite supported richer and more heterogeneous communities than sandstone, elevation had no apparent effect on taxonomic richness, regardless of rock type. Conversely, elevation was clearly associated with turnover in community composition, with the deterministic process of variable selection driving microbial assembly along the elevation gradient. The turnover associated with elevation was modulated by geology, whereby for a given elevation difference, turnover was consistently larger between communities inhabiting different rock types. Overall, selection imposed by elevation and geology appeared stronger than turnover related to other spatially-structured environmental drivers. Our findings indicate that at the cold-arid limit of life on Earth, geology and elevation are key determinants of endolithic bacterial heterogeneity. This also suggests that warming temperatures may threaten the persistence of such extreme-adapted organisms.", "keywords": ["570", "Endolithic microbiome", "Shotgun metagenomics", "550", "Community assembly", "Settore BIO/07 - ECOLOGIA", "Altitude", "Granite", "Antarctica", "Sandstone"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://openpub.fmach.it/bitstream/10449/83878/1/2024%20STE%20Larsen.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168050"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Science%20of%20The%20Total%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168050", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168050", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168050"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172175", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:16:08Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-04-02", "title": "Exploring the potential of earthworm gut bacteria for plastic degradation", "description": "The use of plastic mulch films in agriculture leads to the inevitable accumulation of plastic debris in soils. Here, we explored the potential of earthworm gut-inhabiting bacterial strains (Mycobacterium vanbaalenii (MV), Rhodococcus jostii (RJ), Streptomyces fulvissimus (SF), Bacillus simplex (BS), and Sporosarcina globispora (SG) to degrade plastic films (\u2300\u00a0=\u00a015\u00a0mm) made from commonly used polymers: low-density polyethylene film (LDPE-f), polylactic acid (PLA-f), polybutylene adipate terephthalate film (PBAT-f), and a commercial biodegradable mulch film, Bionov-B\u00ae (composed of Mater-Bi, a feedstock with PBAT, PLA and other chemical compounds). A 180-day experiment was conducted at room temperature (x\u0304 =19.4\u00a0\u00b0C) for different strain-plastic combinations under a low carbon media (0.1\u00d7 tryptic soy broth). Results showed that the tested strain-plastic combinations did not facilitate the degradation of LDPE-f (treated with RJ and SF), PBAT-f (treated with BS and SG), and Bionov-B (treated with BS, MV, and SG). However, incubating PLA-f with SF triggered a reduction in the molecular weights and an increase in crystallinity. Therefore, we used PLA-f as model plastic to study the influence of temperature ('room temperature' & '30\u00a0\u00b0C'), carbon source ('carbon-free' & 'low carbon supply'), and strain interactions ('single strains' & 'strain mixtures') on PLA degradation. SF and SF\u00a0+\u00a0RJ treatments significantly fostered PLA degradation under 30\u00a0\u00b0C in a low-carbon media. PLA-f did not show any degradation in carbon-free media treatments. The competition between different strains in the same system likely hindered the performance of PLA-degrading strains. A positive correlation between the final pH of culture media and PLA-f weight loss was observed, which might reflect the pH-dependent hydrolysis mechanism of PLA. Our results situate SF and its co-culture with RJ strains as possible accelerators of PLA degradation in temperatures below PLA glass transition temperature (Tg). Further studies are needed to test the bioremediation feasibility in soils.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Bacteria", "ddc:550", "Polyesters", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Gastrointestinal Microbiome", "03 medical and health sciences", "Biodegradation", " Environmental", "Life Science", "Animals", "Soil Pollutants", "Oligochaeta", "Plastics", "Soil Microbiology", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172175"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Science%20of%20The%20Total%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172175", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172175", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172175"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-06-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.tifs.2021.10.002", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:16:26Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-10-07", "title": "Vegetable waste and by-products to feed a healthy gut microbiota: current evidence, machine learning and computational tools to design novel microbiome-targeted foods", "description": "[Background] Food waste management is a key issue to global food security and friendly environmental governance. Worldwide, one-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted along the food supply chain, primary production and food processing representing the most significant loses. Therefore, the need to achieve zero waste production schemes is becoming a priority to meet Sustainable Development Goals. Increasing evidence points towards vegetable food waste as a rich source of a wide array of carbohydrate structures and fibres providing the opportunity to identify and develop alternative approaches to valorize agro-food waste. [Scope and approach] This review describes the valorization of vegetable waste and by-products via production of (novel) substrates targeted to gut microbiota modulation, emphasizing the importance of raw materials and structural-functional properties of carbohydrates. Furthermore, we propose a novel framework for the rational selection of vegetable sources with potential prebiotic activity, based on machine learning and other computational tools applied to available literature and public database information. [Key findings and conclusions] Integration of the body of knowledge within the field of vegetable food waste valorization, from different perspectives, allows a rational selection of carbohydrate-based substrates with promising prebiotic activities. By exploring the interactions among dietary fibre and gut microbial ecosystems using computational tools fed with structural, functional and genomic data, we can identify substrates with potential to selectively stimulate gut commensals, in agreement with experimental evidence. Our approach establishes a new framework that can be extended to a wide range of commensal microbes and carbohydrate structures. The work in our research groups was funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 818368 (MASTER), and the grants RTI 2018-095021-J-I00 (funded by (MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE), AGL 2017-84614-C2-1-R and AGL 2016-78311-R (funded by (MINECO/AEI/FEDER, UE). Carlos Sabater acknowledges his Postdoctoral research contract funded by the Instituto de Investigaci\u00f3n Sanitaria del Principado de Asturias (ISPA) and Postdoctoral research contract Juan de la Cierva-Formaci\u00f3n from Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (FJC 2019-042125-I). Peer reviewed", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "Circular economy", "Glycosidase activity", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "Vegetable food waste valorization", "12. Responsible consumption", "03 medical and health sciences", "Prebiotics", "13. Climate action", "Machine learning", "11. Sustainability", "Microbiome"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tifs.2021.10.002"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Trends%20in%20Food%20Science%20%26amp%3B%20Technology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.tifs.2021.10.002", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.tifs.2021.10.002", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.tifs.2021.10.002"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1021/acs.est.0c06687", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:16:32Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-02-10", "title": "Microbial Interactions Drive the Complete Catabolism of the Antibiotic Sulfamethoxazole in Activated Sludge Microbiomes", "description": "Microbial communities are believed to outperform monocultures in the complete catabolism of organic pollutants via reduced metabolic burden and increased robustness to environmental challenges; however, the interaction mechanism in functional microbiomes remains poorly understood. Here, three functionally differentiated activated sludge microbiomes (S1: complete catabolism of sulfamethoxazole (SMX); S2: complete catabolism of the phenyl part of SMX ([phenyl]-SMX) with stable accumulation of its heterocyclic product 3-amino-5-methylisoxazole (3A5MI); A: complete catabolism of 3A5MI rather than [phenyl]-SMX) were enriched. Combining time-series cultivation-independent microbial community analysis, DNA-stable isotope probing, molecular ecological network analysis, and cultivation-dependent function verification, we identified key players involved in the SMX degradation process. Paenarthrobacter and Nocardioides were primary degraders for the initial cleavage of the sulfonamide functional group (-C-S-N- bond) and 3A5MI degradation, respectively. Complete catabolism of SMX was achieved by their cross-feeding. The co-culture of Nocardioides, Acidovorax, and Sphingobium demonstrated that the nondegraders Acidovorax and Sphingobium were involved in the enhancement of 3A5MI degradation. Moreover, we unraveled the internal labor division patterns and connections among the active members centered on the two primary degraders. Overall, the proposed methodology is promisingly applicable and would help generate mechanistic, predictive, and operational understanding of the collaborative biodegradation of various contaminants. This study provides useful information for synthetic activated sludge microbiomes with optimized environmental functions.", "keywords": ["Sulfamethoxazole", "Physiology", "Science Policy", "analysis", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "02 engineering and technology", "Microbiology", "Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified", "heterocyclic product 3-", "11. Sustainability", "Activated Sludge Microbiomes Microb.", "Acidovorax", "SMX degradation process", "Molecular Biology", "cultivation-dependent function veri.", "phenyl", "Ecology", "Sewage", "Microbiota", "catabolism", "Nocardioide", "Computational Biology", "Cell Biology", "6. Clean water", "Sphingobium", "Anti-Bacterial Agents", "sludge microbiomes", "Infectious Diseases", "Complete", "Biodegradation", " Environmental", "Microbial Interactions Drive", "degrader", "Microbial Interactions", "labor division patterns", "5MI degradation", "Water Pollutants", " Chemical", "Developmental Biology", "Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.0c06687"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c06687"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Science%20%26amp%3B%20Technology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1021/acs.est.0c06687", "name": "item", "description": "10.1021/acs.est.0c06687", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1021/acs.est.0c06687"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-02-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s40793-021-00381-2", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:18:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-02-10", "title": "Soil, senescence and exudate utilisation: characterisation of the\u00a0Paragon var. spring bread wheat root microbiome", "description": "Abstract<p>Conventional methods of agricultural pest control and crop fertilisation are contributing to a crisis of biodiversity loss, biogeochemical cycle dysregulation, and ecosystem collapse. Thus, we must find ecologically responsible means to control disease and promote crop yields. The root-associated microbiome may contribute to this goal as microbes can aid plants with disease suppression, abiotic stress relief, and nutrient bioavailability. We applied 16S rRNA gene &amp; fungal 18S rRNA gene (ITS2 region) amplicon sequencing to profile the diversity of the bacterial, archaeal &amp; fungal communities associated with the roots of UK elite spring bread wheat varietyTriticum aestivum var.Paragon in different soils and developmental stages. This revealed that community composition shifted significantly for all three groups across compartments. This shift was most pronounced for bacteria and fungi, while we observed weaker selection on the ammonia oxidising archaea-dominated archaeal community. Across multiple soil types we found that soil inoculum was a significant driver of endosphere community composition, however several bacterial families were identified as core enriched taxa in all soil conditions. The most abundant of these wereStreptomycetaceaeandBurkholderiaceae.Moreover, as the plants senesce, both families were reduced in abundance, indicating that input from the living plant was required to maintain their abundance in the endosphere. To understand which microbes are using wheat root exudates in the rhizosphere, root exudates were labelled in a13CO2DNA stable isotope probing experiment. This shows that bacterial taxa within theBurkholderiaceaefamily among other core enriched taxa, such asPseudomonadaceae,were able to use root exudates butStreptomycetaceaewere not. Overall, this work provides a better understanding of the wheat microbiome, including the endosphere community. Understanding crop microbiome formation will contribute to ecologically responsible methods for yield improvement and biocontrol in the future.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "570", "0303 health sciences", "Exudate", "15. Life on land", "Senescence", "Microbiology", "630", "QR1-502", "Environmental sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "Root", "Wheat", "GE1-350", "Microbiome", "Endosphere", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://oro.open.ac.uk/77831/1/40793_2021_Article_381.pdf"}, {"href": "https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/80327/1/Published_Version.pdf"}, {"href": "https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s40793-021-00381-2.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-021-00381-2"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Microbiome", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s40793-021-00381-2", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s40793-021-00381-2", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s40793-021-00381-2"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-02-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s40793-020-00364-9", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:18:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-05-01", "title": "Trichomes form genotype-specific microbial hotspots in the phyllosphere of tomato", "description": "<title>Abstract</title>         <p>Background The plant phyllosphere is a well-studied habitat characterized by low nutrient availability and high community dynamics. In contrast, plant trichomes, known for their production of a large number of metabolites, are a yet unexplored habitat for microbes. We analyzed the phyllosphere as well as trichomes of two tomato genotypes (<italic>Solanum lycopersicum</italic> LA4024, <italic>S. habrochaites</italic> LA1777) by targeting bacterial 16S rRNA gene fragments.Results Leaves, leaves without trichomes, and trichomes alone harbored similar abundances of bacteria (10<sup>8</sup>- 10<sup>9</sup> 16S rRNA gene copy numbers per gram of sample). In contrast, bacterial diversity was found significantly increased in trichome samples (Shannon index: 4.4 vs. 2.5). Moreover, the community composition was significantly different when assessed with beta diversity analysis and corresponding statistical tests. At the bacterial class level, <italic>Alphaproteobacteria</italic> (23.6%) were significantly increased, whereas <italic>Bacilli</italic> (8.6%) were decreased in trichomes. The bacterial family <italic>Sphingomonadacea</italic> (8.4%) was identified as the most prominent, trichome-specific taxa; <italic>Burkholderiaceae</italic> and <italic>Actinobacteria</italic> showed similar pattern. Moreover, <italic>Sphingomonas</italic> was identified as a central element in the core microbiome of trichome samples, while distinct low-abundant bacterial families including <italic>Hymenobacteraceae</italic> and <italic>Alicyclobacillaceae</italic> were exclusively found in trichome samples. Niche preferences were statistically significant for both genotypes and genotype-specific enrichments were further observed.Conclusion Our results provide first evidence of a highly specific trichome microbiome in tomato and show the importance of micro-niches for the structure of bacterial communities on leaves. These findings provide further clues for breeding, plant pathology and protection as well as so far unexplored natural pathogen defense strategies.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "Plant microhabitat", "0303 health sciences", "Plant microbiome", "Trichomes", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "Bacterial communities", "QR1-502", "Environmental sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "Solanum lycopersicum", "Solanum habrochaites", "plant microbiome", " bacterial communities", " plant-microbe interactions", " Solanum habrochaites", " Solanum lycopersicum", " plant microhabitat", " phyllosphere", " trichomes", "GE1-350", "Phyllosphere", "Plant-microbe interactions", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s40793-020-00364-9.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-020-00364-9"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Microbiome", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s40793-020-00364-9", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s40793-020-00364-9", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s40793-020-00364-9"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/ismej.2016.169", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:16:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-01-03", "title": "The Pseudomonas putida T6SS is a plant warden against phytopathogens", "description": "Abstract                <p>Bacterial type VI secretion systems (T6SSs) are molecular weapons designed to deliver toxic effectors into prey cells. These nanomachines have an important role in inter-bacterial competition and provide advantages to T6SS active strains in polymicrobial environments. Here we analyze the genome of the biocontrol agent Pseudomonas putida KT2440 and identify three T6SS gene clusters (K1-, K2- and K3-T6SS). Besides, 10 T6SS effector\uffe2\uff80\uff93immunity pairs were found, including putative nucleases and pore-forming colicins. We show that the K1-T6SS is a potent antibacterial device, which secretes a toxic Rhs-type effector Tke2. Remarkably, P. putida eradicates a broad range of bacteria in a K1-T6SS-dependent manner, including resilient phytopathogens, which demonstrates that the T6SS is instrumental to empower P. putida to fight against competitors. Furthermore, we observed a drastically reduced necrosis on the leaves of Nicotiana benthamiana during co-infection with P. putida and Xanthomonas campestris. Such protection is dependent on the activity of the P. putida T6SS. Many routes have been explored to develop biocontrol agents capable of manipulating the microbial composition of the rhizosphere and phyllosphere. Here we unveil a novel mechanism for plant biocontrol, which needs to be considered for the selection of plant wardens whose mission is to prevent phytopathogen infections.</p>", "keywords": ["PROTEIN SECRETION", "Nicotiana", "0301 basic medicine", "570", "INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION", "05 Environmental Sciences", "VIBRIO-CHOLERAE", "Environmental Sciences & Ecology", "VI SECRETION SYSTEM", "Xanthomonas campestris", "Microbiology", "03 medical and health sciences", "Bacterial Proteins", "10 Technology", "Plant Diseases", "0303 health sciences", "Science & Technology", "Ecology", "Pseudomonas putida", "ROOT MICROBIOME", "Gene Expression Regulation", " Bacterial", "06 Biological Sciences", "Type VI Secretion Systems", "GENOMIC ANALYSIS", "Biological Control Agents", "ESCHERICHIA-COLI", "EFFECTORS", "IMMUNITY PROTEINS", "Original Article", "HOST-RANGE", "Life Sciences & Biomedicine"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.nature.com/articles/ismej2016169.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2016.169"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/The%20ISME%20Journal", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/ismej.2016.169", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/ismej.2016.169", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/ismej.2016.169"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-01-03T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/s41467-020-16438-8", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:16:46Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-05-25", "title": "Large-scale genome-wide analysis links lactic acid bacteria from food with the gut microbiome", "description": "Abstract<p>Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are fundamental in the production of fermented foods and several strains are regarded as probiotics. Large quantities of live LAB are consumed within fermented foods, but it is not yet known to what extent the LAB we ingest become members of the gut microbiome. By analysis of 9445 metagenomes from human samples, we demonstrate that the prevalence and abundance of LAB species in stool samples is generally low and linked to age, lifestyle, and geography, with Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactococcus lactis being most prevalent. Moreover, we identify genome-based differences between food and gut microbes by considering 666 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) newly reconstructed from fermented food microbiomes along with 154,723 human MAGs and 193,078 reference genomes. Our large-scale genome-wide analysis demonstrates that closely related LAB strains occur in both food and gut environments and provides unprecedented evidence that fermented foods can be indeed regarded as a possible source of LAB for the gut microbiome.</p>", "keywords": ["Primates", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Science", "Probiotics", "Q", "gut microbiome", "Article", "Gastrointestinal Microbiome", "lactic acid bacteria", "Lactococcus lactis", "03 medical and health sciences", "Lactobacillales", "Databases", " Genetic", "Food Microbiology", "Animals", "Humans", "Metagenome", "Streptococcus thermophilus", "Fermented Foods", "[PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]", "Life Style", "genome analysis"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://iris.unitn.it/bitstream/11572/269813/1/s41467-020-16438-8.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.iris.unina.it/bitstream/11588/811717/2/NatComm%2c2020_LABfoodgut.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16438-8.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16438-8"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Nature%20Communications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/s41467-020-16438-8", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/s41467-020-16438-8", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/s41467-020-16438-8"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-05-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1093/femsec/fiaa119", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:17:15Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-06-14", "title": "Microbiome approaches provide the key to biologically control postharvest pathogens and storability of fruits and vegetables", "description": "ABSTRACT                <p>Microbes play an important role in plants and interact closely with their host starting from sprouting seeds, continuing during growth and after harvest. The discovery of their importance for plant and postharvest health initiated a biotechnological development of various antagonistic bacteria and fungi for disease control. Nevertheless, their application often showed inconsistent effects. Recently, high-throughput sequencing-based techniques including advanced microscopy reveal fruits and vegetables as holobionts. At harvest, all fruits and vegetables harbor a highly abundant and specific microbiota including beneficial, pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms. Especially, a high microbial diversity and resilient microbial networks were shown to be linked to fruit and vegetable health, while diseased products showed severe dysbiosis. Field and postharvest handling of fruits and vegetables was shown to affect the indigenous microbiome and therefore has a substantial impact on the storability of fruits and vegetables. Microbiome tracking can be implemented as a new tool to evaluate and assess all postharvest processes and contribute to fruit and vegetable health. Here, we summarize current research advancements in the emerging field of postharvest microbiomes and elaborate its importance. The generated knowledge provides profound insights into postharvest microbiome dynamics and sets a new basis for targeted, microbiome-driven and sustainable control strategies.</p", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "Fruit microbiome", "0303 health sciences", "High-throughput sequencing", "Bacteria", "Microbiota", "Fungi", "Biocontrol", "15. Life on land", "Biopreservation", "Postharvest decay", "03 medical and health sciences", "Fruit", "Vegetables", "biocontrol", " biopreservation", " postharvest decay", " high-throughput sequencing", " fruit microbiome"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://academic.oup.com/femsec/article-pdf/96/7/fiaa119/33453502/fiaa119.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiaa119"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/FEMS%20Microbiology%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1093/femsec/fiaa119", "name": "item", "description": "10.1093/femsec/fiaa119", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1093/femsec/fiaa119"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-06-16T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/s41467-024-51398-3", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:16:46Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-08-13", "title": "Insights into the ecology of the infant gut plasmidome", "description": "Plasmids are small DNA molecules that enable bacteria to share beneficial traits, influencing microbial communities. However, their role within the human gut microbiome remains largely unknown. In this study, we investigate the gut microbiomes of 34 mother-child cohorts, employing a plasmid analysis workflow to understand the impact of plasmids on the gut microbiome. We create a plasmid phylogenetic tree, devise a method for assigning plasmid hosts, and examine potential plasmid transfer networks. Our research discovers a wide variety of previously unidentified plasmid sequences, indicating that current databases do not fully represent the gut plasmidome. Interestingly, infants display greater plasmid diversity compared to mothers and other healthy adults. We find that Bacteroidota, a major bacterial phylum, serves as the primary host for gut plasmids and plays a dominant role in gut plasmid transfer events. Additionally, plasmids broaden the genetic capabilities of bacteria, with their influence on bacterial function becoming more apparent as children's gut microbiomes develop. This study sheds light on the role of plasmids in the infant gut microbiome, making a significant contribution to our understanding of plasmid biology.", "keywords": ["Adult", "Male", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "Bacteria", "Bacteroidetes", "Science", "Q", "Infant", " Newborn", "Infant", "Article", "Gastrointestinal Microbiome", "Feces", "03 medical and health sciences", "Humans", "Female", "Phylogeny", "Plasmids"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51398-3"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Nature%20Communications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/s41467-024-51398-3", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/s41467-024-51398-3", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/s41467-024-51398-3"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-08-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/s41558-023-01868-1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:16:47Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-12-04", "title": "The soil microbiome governs the response of microbial respiration to warming across the globe", "description": "Open AccessThe sensitivity of soil microbial respiration to warming (Q10) remains a major source of uncertainty surrounding the projections of soil carbon emissions to the atmosphere as the factors driving Q10 patterns across ecosystems have been assessed in isolation from each other. Here we report the results of a warming experiment using soils from 332 sites across all continents and major biomes to simultaneously evaluate the main drivers of global Q10 patterns. Compared with biochemical recalcitrance, mineral protection, substrate quantity and environmental factors, the soil microbiome (that is, microbial biomass and bacterial taxa) explained the largest portion of variation in Q10 values. Our work provides solid evidence that soil microbiomes largely govern the responses of soil heterotrophic respiration to warming and thus need to be explicitly accounted for when assessing land carbon\u2013climate feedbacks.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Soil microbiome", "Microbial respiration", "13. Climate action", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "Warming", "15. Life on land", "12. Responsible consumption"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01868-1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Nature%20Climate%20Change", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/s41558-023-01868-1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/s41558-023-01868-1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/s41558-023-01868-1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/s43016-020-0129-3", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-09-21T16:16:50Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-08-13", "title": "Meta-analysis of cheese microbiomes highlights contributions to multiple aspects of quality", "description": "A detailed understanding of the cheese microbiome is key to the optimization of flavour, appearance, quality and safety. Accordingly, we conducted a high-resolution meta-analysis of cheese microbiomes and corresponding volatilomes. Using 77 new samples from 55 artisanal cheeses from 27 Irish producers combined with 107 publicly available cheese metagenomes, we recovered 328 metagenome-assembled genomes, including 47 putative new species that could influence taste or colour through the secretion of volatiles or biosynthesis of pigments. Additionally, from a subset of samples, we found that differences in the abundances of strains corresponded with levels of volatiles. Genes encoding bacteriocins and other antimicrobials, such as pseudoalterin, were common, potentially contributing to the control of undesirable microorganisms. Although antibiotic-resistance genes were detected, evidence suggested they are not of major concern with respect to dissemination to other microbiomes. Phages, a potential cause of fermentation failure, were abundant and evidence for phage-mediated gene transfer was detected. The anti-phage defence mechanism CRISPR was widespread and analysis thereof, and of anti-CRISPR proteins, revealed a complex interaction between phages and bacteria. Overall, our results provide new and substantial technological and ecological insights into the cheese microbiome that can be applied to further improve cheese production.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "Applied Microbiology", "microbiome"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-020-0129-3.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-0129-3"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Nature%20Food", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/s43016-020-0129-3", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/s43016-020-0129-3", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/s43016-020-0129-3"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-08-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/genes13050850", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-05-11", "title": "Short-Term Responses of Soil Microbial Communities to Changes in Air Temperature, Soil Moisture and UV Radiation", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>We analyzed the effects on a soil microbial community of short-term alterations in air temperature, soil moisture and ultraviolet radiation and assessed the role of invertebrates (species Enchytraeus crypticus) in modulating the community\u2019s response to these factors. The reference soil, Lufa 2.2, was incubated for 48 h, with and without invertebrates, under the following conditions: standard (20 \u00b0C + 50% water holding capacity (WHC)); increased air temperature (15\u201325 \u00b0C or 20\u201330 \u00b0C + 50% WHC); flood (20 \u00b0C + 75% WHC); drought (20 \u00b0C + 25% WHC); and ultraviolet radiation (UV) (20 \u00b0C + 50% WHC + UV). BIOLOG EcoPlates and 16S rDNA sequencing (Illumina) were used to assess the microbial community\u2019s physiological profile and the bacterial community\u2019s structure, respectively. The bacterial abundance (estimated by 16S rDNA qPCR) did not change. Most of the conditions led to an increase in microbial activity and a decrease in diversity. The structure of the bacterial community was particularly affected by higher air temperatures (20\u201330 \u00b0C, without E. crypticus) and floods (with E. crypticus). Effects were observed at the class, genera and OTU levels. The presence of invertebrates mostly resulted in the attenuation of the observed effects, highlighting the importance of considering microbiome\u2013invertebrate interactions. Considering future climate changes, the effects described here raise concern. This study provides fundamental knowledge to develop effective strategies to mitigate these negative outcomes. However, long-term studies integrating biotic and abiotic factors are needed.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Soil invertebrates", "Ultraviolet Rays", "drought", "microbial activity", "DNA", " Ribosomal", "Flood", "Article", "Quantitative PCR", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "soil microbiome", "2. Zero hunger", "metagenomics", "increased temperature; drought; flood; UV exposure; microbial activity; bacterial diversity; metagenomics; quantitative PCR; soil microbiome; soil invertebrates", "Soil microbiome", "0303 health sciences", "Drought", "Bacteria", "Microbiota", "bacterial diversity", "Temperature", "Water", "flood", "15. Life on land", "soil invertebrates", "6. Clean water", "UV exposure", "Microbial activity", "Bacterial diversity", "13. Climate action", "quantitative PCR", "Metagenomics", "Increased temperature", "increased temperature"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/13/5/850/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/genes13050850"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Genes", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/genes13050850", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/genes13050850", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/genes13050850"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-05-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fenvs.2021.624070", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:14Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-03-15", "title": "Soil Microbiome Structure and Function in Ecopiles Used to Remediate Petroleum-Contaminated Soil", "description": "<p>The soil microbiome consists of a vast variety of microorganisms which contribute to essential ecosystem services including nutrient recycling, protecting soil structure, and pathogen suppression. Recalcitrant organic compounds present in soils contaminated with fuel oil can lead to a decrease in functional redundancy within soil microbiomes. Ecopiling is a passive bioremediation technique involving biostimulation of indigenous hydrocarbon degraders, bioaugmentation through inoculation with known petroleum-degrading consortia, and phytoremediation. The current study investigates the assemblage of soil microbial communities and pollutant-degrading potential in soil undergoing the Ecopiling process, through the amplicon marker gene and metagenomics analysis of the contaminated soil. The analysis of key community members including bacteria, fungi, and nematodes revealed a surprisingly diverse microbial community composition within the contaminated soil. The soil bacterial community was found to be dominated by Alphaproteobacteria (60\uffe2\uff80\uff9370%) with the most abundant genera such as Lysobacter, Dietzia, Pseudomonas, and Extensimonas. The fungal community consisted mainly of Ascomycota (50\uffe2\uff80\uff9370% relative abundance). Soil sequencing data allowed the identification of key enzymes involved in the biodegradation of hydrocarbons, providing a novel window into the function of individual bacterial groups in the Ecopile. Although the genus Lysobacter was identified as the most abundant bacterial genus (11\uffe2\uff80\uff9346%) in all of the contaminated soil samples, the metagenomic data were unable to confirm a role for this group in petrochemical degradation. Conversely, genera with relatively low abundance such as Dietzia (0.4\uffe2\uff80\uff939.0%), Pusillimonas (0.7\uffe2\uff80\uff932.3%), and Bradyrhizobium (0.8\uffe2\uff80\uff931.8%) did possess genes involved in aliphatic or aromatic compound degradation.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "metagenomics", "microbiome", "phytoremediation", "15. Life on land", "Biolog\u00eda y Biomedicina / Biolog\u00eda", "6. Clean water", "Phytoremediation", "12. Responsible consumption", "Environmental sciences", "Ecopiling", " bioremediation", " phytoremediation", " microbiome", " metagenomics", "Ecopiling", "03 medical and health sciences", "bioremediation", "13. Climate action", "GE1-350", "Microbiome", "Metagenomics", "Bioremediation"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.624070"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Environmental%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3389/fenvs.2021.624070", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fenvs.2021.624070", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fenvs.2021.624070"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-03-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1093/femsre/fuaa015", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:17:15Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-05-20", "title": "The food-gut axis: lactic acid bacteria and their link to food, the gut microbiome and human health", "description": "ABSTRACT<p>Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are present in foods, the environment and the animal gut, although fermented foods (FFs) are recognized as the primary niche of LAB activity. Several LAB strains have been studied for their health-promoting properties and are employed as probiotics. FFs are recognized for their potential beneficial effects, which we review in this article. They are also an important source of LAB, which are ingested daily upon FF consumption. In this review, we describe the diversity of LAB and their occurrence in food as well as the gut microbiome. We discuss the opportunities to study LAB diversity and functional properties by considering the availability of both genomic and metagenomic data in public repositories, as well as the different latest computational tools for data analysis. In addition, we discuss the role of LAB as potential probiotics by reporting the prevalence of key genomic features in public genomes and by surveying the outcomes of LAB use in clinical trials involving human subjects. Finally, we highlight the need for further studies aimed at improving our knowledge of the link between LAB-fermented foods and the human gut from the perspective of health promotion.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "human microbiome", "Review Article", "Gastrointestinal Microbiome", "3. Good health", "lactic acid bacteria", "03 medical and health sciences", "probiotics", "Health", "Lactobacillales", "food microbiome; human microbiome; lactic acid bacteria; probiotics", "food microbiome", "Food Microbiology", "Humans"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.iris.unina.it/bitstream/11588/811718/2/FEMSMicroRev%2c2020_LABfoodgut.pdf"}, {"href": "http://academic.oup.com/femsre/article-pdf/44/4/454/37084083/fuaa015.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuaa015"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/FEMS%20Microbiology%20Reviews", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1093/femsre/fuaa015", "name": "item", "description": "10.1093/femsre/fuaa015", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1093/femsre/fuaa015"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-06-18T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1101/2024.01.17.575993", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:17:23Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-01-19", "title": "Exposure of gut bacterial isolates to the anthelminthic drugs, ivermectin and moxidectin, leads to antibiotic-like phenotypes of growth inhibition and adaptation", "description": "Abstract<p>Due to their broad-spectrum activities, ivermectin and moxidectin are widely used anthelminthics in veterinary and human medicine. However, ivermectin has recently been shown to perturbate gut-microbial growth. Given the macrolide-like structure of both ivermectin and moxidectin, there is a need to characterize the antibiotic spectrum of these anthelminthic drugs and their potential implications in the development of cross-resistance to macrolides and other families of antibiotics. Here, we incubated 59 bacterial isolates representing different clades frequently found in the gut with ivermectin and moxidectin at different concentrations for 16-72h. Further, we challenged 10 bacterial isolates with repeated and gradually increasing concentrations of these two anthelminthics and subsequently characterized their sensitivity to different antibiotics as well as ascending anthelminthic concentrations. We found, that antibacterial activity of the two anthelminthics is comparable to a selection of tested antibiotics, as observed by potency and dose dependence. Bacterial anthelminthic challengingin vitroresulted in decreased anthelminthic sensitivity. Further, adaptation to anthelminthics is associated with decreased antibiotic sensitivity towards three macrolides, a lincosamide, a fluoroquinolone, a tetracycline and two carbapenems. The observed change in bacterial sensitivity profiles is associated with - and likely caused by - repeated anthelminthic exposure. Hence, current and future large-scale administration of ivermectin and moxidectin, respectively, for the control of helminths and malaria raises serious concerns - and hence potential off-target effects should be carefully monitored.</p", "keywords": ["Anthelmintics", "Ivermectin", "Phenotype", "Bacteria", "QH301-705.5", "Ivermectin/pharmacology; Macrolides/pharmacology; Anthelmintics/pharmacology; Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology; Bacteria/drug effects; Bacteria/growth & development; Gastrointestinal Microbiome/drug effects; Phenotype; Microbial Sensitivity Tests; Animals", "Animals", "Macrolides", "Microbial Sensitivity Tests", "Biology (General)", "Article", "Anti-Bacterial Agents", "Gastrointestinal Microbiome"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.17.575993"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Communications%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1101/2024.01.17.575993", "name": "item", "description": "10.1101/2024.01.17.575993", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1101/2024.01.17.575993"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-01-18T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1080/21553769.2018.1552628", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:17:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-12-07", "title": "Assessing the impact of plant genetic diversity in shaping the microbial community structure of Vitis vinifera phyllosphere in the Mediterranean", "description": "The aerial surface of the plant (phyllosphere) is the habitat of complex microbial communities and the structure of this microbiome may be dependent on plant genetic factors, local environment or i...", "keywords": ["[SDV.SA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "[SDV.SA] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences", "Vegetal Biology", "montpellier", "590", "microbiome", "genetic diversity", "genetic diversity;grapevine;microbiome;phyllosphere", "15. 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Life underwater", "vigne", "Biologie v\u00e9g\u00e9tale", "Sciences agricoles", "cultivar"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21553769.2018.1552628"}, {"href": "https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-02621628/file/2018_Singh_Frontiers%20in%20Life%20Science_1.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1080/21553769.2018.1552628"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Life%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1080/21553769.2018.1552628", "name": "item", "description": "10.1080/21553769.2018.1552628", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1080/21553769.2018.1552628"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1093/ismeco/ycae116", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:17:16Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-10-08", "title": "Land use effects on soil microbiome composition and traits with consequences for soil carbon cycling", "description": "Abstract                <p>The soil microbiome determines the fate of plant-fixed carbon. The shifts in soil properties caused by land use change leads to modifications in microbiome function, resulting in either loss or gain of soil organic carbon (SOC). Soil pH is the primary factor regulating microbiome characteristics leading to distinct pathways of microbial carbon cycling, but the underlying mechanisms remain understudied. Here, the taxa-trait relationships behind the variable fate of SOC were investigated using metaproteomics, metabarcoding, and a 13C-labeled litter decomposition experiment across two temperate sites with differing soil pH each with a paired land use intensity contrast. 13C incorporation into microbial biomass increased with land use intensification in low-pH soil but decreased in high-pH soil, with potential impact on carbon use efficiency in opposing directions. Reduction in biosynthesis traits was due to increased abundance of proteins linked to resource acquisition and stress tolerance. These trait trade-offs were underpinned by land use intensification-induced changes in dominant taxa with distinct traits. We observed divergent pH-controlled pathways of SOC cycling. In low-pH soil, land use intensification alleviates microbial abiotic stress resulting in increased biomass production but promotes decomposition and SOC loss. In contrast, in high-pH soil, land use intensification increases microbial physiological constraints and decreases biomass production, leading to reduced necromass build-up and SOC stabilization. We demonstrate how microbial biomass production and respiration dynamics and therefore carbon use efficiency can be decoupled from SOC highlighting the need for its careful consideration in managing SOC storage for soil health and climate change mitigation.</p", "keywords": ["soil health", "Supplementary Data", "QH301 Biology", "carbon use efficiency", "carbon cycling", "https://oup.silverchair-cdn.com/oup/backfile/Content_public/Journal/ismecommun/4/1/10.1093_ismeco_ycae116/1/otu_table_16s_table_s1_ycae116.xlsx?Expires=1737538557&Signature=3IutEpMaJIknJFjSbheOQYWpAwXt2atlN4YtPR7BTaTGf3jrf1M6yHgYzlnrttKlwpbFcwz-IqYq96oubC5FxfBQQyiIC0H-az-D~Bkstxc9XHkEmERELO~nurTlszmUndzm3jLsKF05x00PNsiNFlGKUhlsMB6wRmyO3v3GNBqHQVdswXZ3UAjfXvqqinyDLK54UCxfLk8eKpcfFnvVctxQ8Hrk3gP-eMFToKDlXgPD4MXGrdegvcZblx6g8FAvJruLIG1NWIRJ6wzx6HcmAYiZDJcGosKrdjMBIznM8YIJjBrfWwhGvjh15Z7MJnsUWn8PjxLjXfww29q-YfQnw__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA", "https://oup.silverchair-cdn.com/oup/backfile/Content_public/Journal/ismecommun/4/1/10.1093_ismeco_ycae116/1/otu_table_18s_table_s2_ycae116.xlsx?Expires=1737538557&Signature=ZVWC9BaJ2MOsxOOfzrmd-9nuLAy5yHOmeqJQmKHhQ1z7mXxXITIYAvM8BpVkEkQHB7Bo-6dNEm5FlC6eAuTroyq-dvMW3PD6MNP9SN5KgwSrKUeHM6IKNhzav6Q4zd48B95IPreN5UKQTTVPrphpdOxfdVKYKxD3qOMdWqmHXt-IAD~W80PJ0BjvpHXPQ0pYCmGInVv1Fe-L3k~OKo80rD0xtncnBCFRd8DVHTIY5JLjJr4-E~M3Gainkbz2AVLZwys3S6MMEboS8vKSj~rG34Z04ByT6dBjp0XDj2H9K7WjXlEqOoPIwUWUUfcVvn4N5wZ6R6YFZr9mk4qTZKdEow__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA", "004", "soil organic carbon", "QH301", "soil pH", "13C labelling", "land use intensity", "soil microbiome", "metabarcoding", "SDG 13 - Climate Action", "metaproteomics", "Original Article", "SDG 15 - Life on Land"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycae116"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/ISME%20Communications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1093/ismeco/ycae116", "name": "item", "description": "10.1093/ismeco/ycae116", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1093/ismeco/ycae116"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1093/jxb/erad421", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:17:17Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-10-26", "title": "Location: root architecture structures rhizosphere microbial associations", "description": "Abstract                <p>Root architectural phenotypes are promising targets for crop breeding, but root architectural effects on microbial associations in agricultural fields are not well understood. Architecture determines the location of microbial associations within root systems, which, when integrated with soil vertical gradients, determines the functions and the metabolic capability of rhizosphere microbial communities. We argue that variation in root architecture in crops has important implications for root exudation, microbial recruitment and function, and the decomposition and fate of root tissues and exudates. Recent research has shown that the root microbiome changes along root axes and among root classes, that root tips have a unique microbiome, and that root exudates change within the root system depending on soil physicochemical conditions. Although fresh exudates are produced in larger amounts in root tips, the rhizosphere of mature root segments also plays a role in influencing soil vertical gradients. We argue that more research is needed to understand specific root phenotypes that structure microbial associations and discuss candidate root phenotypes that may determine the location of microbial hotspots within root systems with relevance to agricultural systems.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "root system architecture", "rhizosphere microbiome", "root growth angle", "15. Life on land", "Expert Views", "Plant Roots", "lateral roots", "soil vertical gradients", "number of axial roots", "Carbon rhizodeposition; lateral roots; number of axial roots; rhizosphere microbiome; root growth angle; rooting depth; root system architecture; soil redox potential; soil vertical gradients", "Plant Breeding", "Soil", "rooting depth", "Rhizosphere", "Carbon rhizodeposition", "soil redox potential", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad421"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Experimental%20Botany", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1093/jxb/erad421", "name": "item", "description": "10.1093/jxb/erad421", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1093/jxb/erad421"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-10-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1099/mic.0.001477", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:17:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-08-06", "title": "Mobility and growth in confined spaces are important mechanisms for the establishment of Bacillus subtilis in the rhizosphere", "description": "<p>The rhizosphere hosts complex and abundant microbiomes whose structure and composition are now well described by metagenomic studies. However, the dynamic mechanisms that enable micro-organisms to establish along a growing plant root are poorly characterized. Here, we studied how a motile bacterium utilizes the microhabitats created by soil pore space to establish in the proximity of plant roots. We have established a model system consisting of Bacillus subtilis and lettuce seedlings co-inoculated in transparent soil microcosms. We carried out live imaging experiments and developed image analysis pipelines to quantify the abundance of the bacterium as a function of time and position in the pore space. Results showed that the establishment of the bacterium in the rhizosphere follows a precise sequence of events where small islands of mobile bacteria were first seen forming near the root tip within the first 12\uffe2\uff80\uff9324\uffe2\uff80\uff89h of inoculation. Biofilm was then seen forming on the root epidermis at distances of about 700\uffe2\uff80\uff931000\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb5m from the tip. Bacteria accumulated predominantly in confined pore spaces within 200\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb5m from the root or the surface of a particle. Using probabilistic models, we could map the complete sequence of events and propose a conceptual model of bacterial establishment in the pore space. This study therefore advances our understanding of the respective role of growth and mobility in the efficient colonization of bacteria in the rhizosphere.</p", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "Ecology and Microbiomes", "Seedlings", "Biofilms", "Rhizosphere", "Plant Roots", "Soil Microbiology", "Bacillus subtilis", "Lactuca"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001477"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microbiology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1099/mic.0.001477", "name": "item", "description": "10.1099/mic.0.001477", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1099/mic.0.001477"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-08-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1101/2021.02.09.430461", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:17:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-02-10", "title": "Soil, senescence and exudate utilisation: Characterisation of the Paragon var. spring bread wheat root microbiome", "description": "Abstract<p>Conventional methods of agricultural pest control and crop fertilisation are contributing to a crisis of biodiversity loss, biogeochemical cycle dysregulation, and ecosystem collapse. Thus, we must find ecologically responsible means to control disease and promote crop yields. The root-associated microbiome may contribute to this goal as microbes can aid plants with disease suppression, abiotic stress relief, and nutrient bioavailability. We applied 16S rRNA gene &amp; fungal 18S rRNA gene (ITS2 region) amplicon sequencing to profile the diversity of the bacterial, archaeal &amp; fungal communities associated with the roots of UK elite spring bread wheat varietyTriticum aestivum var.Paragon in different soils and developmental stages. This revealed that community composition shifted significantly for all three groups across compartments. This shift was most pronounced for bacteria and fungi, while we observed weaker selection on the ammonia oxidising archaea-dominated archaeal community. Across multiple soil types we found that soil inoculum was a significant driver of endosphere community composition, however several bacterial families were identified as core enriched taxa in all soil conditions. The most abundant of these wereStreptomycetaceaeandBurkholderiaceae.Moreover, as the plants senesce, both families were reduced in abundance, indicating that input from the living plant was required to maintain their abundance in the endosphere. To understand which microbes are using wheat root exudates in the rhizosphere, root exudates were labelled in a13CO2DNA stable isotope probing experiment. This shows that bacterial taxa within theBurkholderiaceaefamily among other core enriched taxa, such asPseudomonadaceae,were able to use root exudates butStreptomycetaceaewere not. Overall, this work provides a better understanding of the wheat microbiome, including the endosphere community. Understanding crop microbiome formation will contribute to ecologically responsible methods for yield improvement and biocontrol in the future.</p", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "570", "0303 health sciences", "Exudate", "15. Life on land", "Senescence", "Microbiology", "630", "QR1-502", "Environmental sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "Root", "Wheat", "GE1-350", "Microbiome", "Endosphere", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://oro.open.ac.uk/77831/1/40793_2021_Article_381.pdf"}, {"href": "https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/80327/1/Published_Version.pdf"}, {"href": "https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s40793-021-00381-2.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.09.430461"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Microbiome", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1101/2021.02.09.430461", "name": "item", "description": "10.1101/2021.02.09.430461", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1101/2021.02.09.430461"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-02-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2024.1473666", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:16Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-10-24", "title": "Culturomics- and metagenomics-based insights into the soil microbiome preservation and application for sustainable agriculture", "description": "<p>Soil health is crucial for global food production in the context of an ever-growing global population. Microbiomes, a combination of microorganisms and their activities, play a pivotal role by biodegrading contaminants, maintaining soil structure, controlling nutrients\uffe2\uff80\uff99 cycles, and regulating the plant responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. Microbiome-based solutions along the soil-plant continuum, and their scaling up from laboratory experiments to field applications, hold promise for enhancing agricultural sustainability by harnessing the power of microbial consortia. Synthetic microbial communities, i.e., selected microbial consortia, are designed to perform specific functions. In contrast, natural communities leverage indigenous microbial populations that are adapted to local soil conditions, promoting ecosystem resilience, and reducing reliance on external inputs. The identification of microbial indicators requires a holistic approach. It is fundamental for current understanding the soil health status and for providing a comprehensive assessment of sustainable land management practices and conservation efforts. Recent advancements in molecular technologies, such as high-throughput sequencing, revealed the incredible diversity of soil microbiomes. On one hand, metagenomic sequencing allows the characterization of the entire genetic composition of soil microbiomes, and the examination of their functional potential and ecological roles; on the other hand, culturomics-based approaches and metabolic fingerprinting offer complementary information by providing snapshots of microbial diversity and metabolic activities both in and ex-situ. Long-term storage and cryopreservation of mixed culture and whole microbiome are crucial to maintain the originality of the sample in microbiome biobanking and for the development and application of microbiome-based innovation. This review aims to elucidate the available approaches to characterize diversity, function, and resilience of soil microbial communities and to develop microbiome-based solutions that can pave the way for harnessing nature\uffe2\uff80\uff99s untapped resources to cultivate crops in healthy soils, to enhance plant resilience to abiotic and biotic stresses, and to shape thriving ecosystems unlocking the potential of soil microbiomes is key to sustainable agriculture. Improving management practices by incorporating beneficial microbial consortia, and promoting resilience to climate change by facilitating adaptive strategies with respect to environmental conditions are the global challenges of the future to address the issues of climate change, land degradation and food security.</p", "keywords": ["sustainable agriculture", "microbiome-based solutions; soil health; microbiome preservation; SynComs; NatComs; omics approaches; microbiome application; sustainable agriculture", "microbiome-based solutions", "omics approaches", "soil health", "microbiome preservation", "microbiome application", "NatComs", "Microbiology", "SynComs", "QR1-502"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Elisa Clagnan, Elisa Clagnan, Manuela Costanzo, Andrea Visca, Luciana Di Gregorio, Silvia Tabacchioni, Eleonora Colantoni, Filippo Sevi, Federico Sbarra, Federico Sbarra, Arianna Bindo, Arianna Bindo, Lorenzo Nolfi, Lorenzo Nolfi, Rosaria Alessandra Magarelli, Mario Trupo, Alfredo Ambrico, Annamaria Bevivino,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://air.unimi.it/bitstream/2434/1116082/2/fmicb-15-1473666.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1473666"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Microbiology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3389/fmicb.2024.1473666", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2024.1473666", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1473666"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-10-24T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/genes15010107", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-01-16", "title": "Structural and Functional Shifts in the Microbial Community of a Heavy Metal-Contaminated Soil Exposed to Short-Term Changes in Air Temperature, Soil Moisture and UV Radiation", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>The interplay between metal contamination and climate change may exacerbate the negative impact on the soil microbiome and, consequently, on soil health and ecosystem services. We assessed the response of the microbial community of a heavy metal-contaminated soil when exposed to short-term (48 h) variations in air temperature, soil humidity or ultraviolet (UV) radiation in the absence and presence of Enchytraeus crypticus (soil invertebrate). Each of the climate scenarios simulated significantly altered at least one of the microbial parameters measured. Irrespective of the presence or absence of invertebrates, the effects were particularly marked upon exposure to increased air temperature and alterations in soil moisture levels (drought and flood scenarios). The observed effects can be partly explained by significant alterations in soil properties such as pH, dissolved organic carbon, and water-extractable heavy metals, which were observed for all scenarios in comparison to standard conditions. The occurrence of invertebrates mitigated some of the impacts observed on the soil microbial community, particularly in bacterial abundance, richness, diversity, and metabolic activity. Our findings emphasize the importance of considering the interplay between climate change, anthropogenic pressures, and soil biotic components to assess the impact of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems and to develop and implement effective management strategies.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "Soil invertebrates", "Soil microbiome", "Soil drought", "Ultraviolet Rays", "Soil pollution", "Microbiota", "Temperature", "Enchytraeus crypticus", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Article", "6. Clean water", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "UVR exposure", "Metals", " Heavy", "Climate change", "Soil flood", "Metagenomics", "Increased temperature", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/genes15010107"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Genes", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/genes15010107", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/genes15010107", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/genes15010107"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-01-16T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/gcb.70301", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:17:36Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-06-20", "title": "Microbiome Adaptation Could Amplify Modeled Projections of Global Soil Carbon Loss With Climate Warming", "description": "ABSTRACT<p>Warming alters soil microbial traits through ecological and evolutionary processes, directly influencing the decomposition of organic matter, which significantly affects global soil carbon emissions. Yet, soil carbon models largely ignore these processes and their implications for global responses to warming. Here, we incorporate eco\uffe2\uff80\uff90evolutionary theory into a mechanistic model describing microbial soil carbon decomposition to address the question of whether such processes could have consequential effects on climate carbon feedbacks globally. We assume that a key trait of microbes, their resource allocation to production of exoenzymes (which facilitate decomposition of organic matter)\uffe2\uff80\uff94is optimized to environmental temperatures by natural selection. We find that eco\uffe2\uff80\uff90evolutionary optimization results in microbes allocating more resources to enzyme production under warming. When applied at the global scale, eco\uffe2\uff80\uff90evolutionary optimization enhances the biological realism of soil carbon models and significantly amplifies global soil carbon loss by 2100. Our results highlight the significant potential of microbial eco\uffe2\uff80\uff90evolutionary responses to influence carbon cycle feedbacks to climate change, and motivate an urgent need for more comprehensive data to accurately quantify the adaptive potential of microbiomes in response to climate change.</p", "keywords": ["Climate Change", "soil carbon decomposition", "global warming", "Global Warming", "Carbon Cycle", "Soil", "climate carbon feedback", "Theoretical", "Models", "microbiome adaptation", "climate carbon feedback eco-evolutionary processes global soil carbon global warming microbiome adaptation soil carbon decomposition", "eco-evolutionary processes", "Soil Microbiology", "Ecology", "[SDU.OCEAN] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean", " Atmosphere", "Microbiota", "Biological Sciences", "Carbon", "[SDU.ENVI] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", " environment", "eco\u2010evolutionary processes", "Climate Action", "Environmental sciences", "Biological sciences", "Earth sciences", "global soil carbon", "Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation", "Environmental Sciences", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70301"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/gcb.70301", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/gcb.70301", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/gcb.70301"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-06-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/nph.17365", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:17:54Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-03-29", "title": "New insight to the role of microbes in the methane exchange in trees: evidence from metagenomic sequencing", "description": "Summary<p>Methane (CH4) exchange in tree stems and canopies and the processes involved are among the least understood components of the global CH4 cycle. Recent studies have focused on quantifying tree stems as sources of CH4 and understanding abiotic CH4 emissions in plant canopies, with the role of microbial in situ CH4 formation receiving less attention. Moreover, despite initial reports revealing CH4 consumption, studies have not adequately evaluated the potential of microbial CH4 oxidation within trees. In this paper, we discuss the current level of understanding on these processes. Further, we demonstrate the potential of novel metagenomic tools in revealing the involvement of microbes in the CH4 exchange of plants, and particularly in boreal trees. We detected CH4\uffe2\uff80\uff90producing methanogens and novel monooxygenases, potentially involved in CH4 consumption, in coniferous plants. In addition, our field flux measurements from Norway spruce (Picea abies) canopies demonstrate both net CH4 emissions and uptake, giving further evidence that both production and consumption are relevant to the net CH4 exchange. Our findings, together with the emerging diversity of novel CH4\uffe2\uff80\uff90producing microbial groups, strongly suggest microbial analyses should be integrated in the studies aiming to reveal the processes and drivers behind plant CH4 exchange.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "330", "ta1172", "metaani", "bakteerit", "Trees", "03 medical and health sciences", "boreal forests", "Ymp\u00e4rist\u00f6tiede", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Norway", "ta1183", "kasvifysiologia", "puut (kasvit)", "genomiikka", "15. Life on land", "ta4112", "methanogenic archaea", "mets\u00e4t", "plant microbiome", "tree", "methane exchange", "boreaalinen vy\u00f6hyke", "mikrobisto", "13. Climate action", "Environmental Science", "aineiden kierto", "Metagenomics", "methanotrophic bacteria", "arkeonit", "Methane", "captured metagenomics"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/nph.17365"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17365"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/New%20Phytologist", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/nph.17365", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/nph.17365", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/nph.17365"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-05-02T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1128/aem.02209-19", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:17:59Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-12-04", "title": "Casimicrobium huifangae gen. nov., sp. nov., a Ubiquitous \u201cMost-Wanted\u201d Core Bacterial Taxon from Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants", "description": "<p>             The activated sludge process is the most widely applied biotechnology and is one of the best ecosystems to address microbial ecological principles. Yet, the cultivation of core bacteria and the exploration of their physiology and ecology are limited. In this study, the core and novel bacterial taxon             C. huifangae             was cultivated and characterized. This study revealed that             C. huifangae             functioned as an important module hub in the activated sludge microbiome, and it potentially plays an important role in municipal wastewater treatment plants.           </p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "activated sludge microbiome", "DATABASE", "DIVERSITY", "nitrogen and phosphorus removal", "GENOME ANNOTATION", "POLYPHOSPHATE-ACCUMULATING ORGANISMS", "12. Responsible consumption", "ACTIVATED-SLUDGE", "03 medical and health sciences", "SEARCH", "RNA", " Ribosomal", " 16S", "11. Sustainability", "microbial network", "Phylogeny", "WWTP", "0303 health sciences", "IDENTIFICATION", "Sewage", "Microbiota", "Betaproteobacteria", "core taxa", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "COMMUNITY", "RNA", " Bacterial", "Casimicrobium huifangae", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "BIOLOGICAL PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL", "municipal wastewater treatment plant", "CARBON SOURCE"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/AEM.02209-19"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.02209-19"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20and%20Environmental%20Microbiology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1128/aem.02209-19", "name": "item", "description": "10.1128/aem.02209-19", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1128/aem.02209-19"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-02-03T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1128/msystems.00859-24", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:17:59Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-09-10", "title": "A novel barcoded nanopore sequencing workflow of high-quality, full-length bacterial 16S amplicons for taxonomic annotation of bacterial isolates and complex microbial communities", "description": "ABSTRACT                                     <p>               Due to recent improvements, Nanopore sequencing has become a promising method for experiments relying on amplicon sequencing. We describe a flexible workflow to generate and annotate high-quality, full-length 16S rDNA amplicons. We evaluated it for two applications, namely, (i) identification of bacterial isolates and (ii) species-level profiling of microbial communities. We assessed the identification of single bacterial isolates by sequencing, using a set of barcoded full-length 16S rRNA gene primer pairs (pair A), on 47 isolates encompassing multiple genera and compared those results with matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS)-based identification. Species-level community profiling was tested with two sets of barcoded full-length 16S primer pairs (A and B) and compared to the results obtained with shotgun Illumina sequencing using 27 stool samples. We developed a Nextflow pipeline to retain high-quality reads and taxonomically annotate them. We found high agreement between our workflow and MALDI-TOF data for isolate identification (positive predictive value = 0.90, Cram\uffc3\uffa9r\uffe2\uff80\uff99s               V               = 0.857, and Theil\uffe2\uff80\uff99s               U               = 0.316). For species-level community profiling, we found strong correlations (               r                                s                              &gt; 0.6) of alpha diversity indices between the two primer sets and Illumina sequencing. At the community level, we found significant but small differences when comparing sequencing techniques. Finally, we found a moderate to strong correlation when comparing the relative abundances of individual species (average               r                                s                              = 0.6 and 0.533 for primers A and B). Despite identified shortcomings, the proposed workflow enabled accurate identification of single bacterial isolates and prominent features in microbial communities, making it a worthwhile alternative to MALDI-TOF MS and Illumina sequencing.             </p>                            IMPORTANCE               <p>A quick, robust, simple, and cost-effective method to identify bacterial isolates and communities in each sample is indispensable in the fields of microbiology and infection biology. Recent technological advances in Oxford Nanopore Technologies sequencing make this technique an attractive option considering the adaptability, portability, and cost-effectiveness of the platform, even with small sequencing batches. Here, we validated a flexible workflow to identify bacterial isolates and characterize bacterial communities using the Oxford Nanopore Technologies sequencing platform combined with the most recent v14 chemistry kits. For bacterial isolates, we compared our nanopore-based approach to matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry-based identification. For species-level profiling of complex bacterial communities, we compared our nanopore-based approach to Illumina shotgun sequencing. For reproducibility purposes, we wrapped the code used to process the sequencing data into a ready-to-use and self-contained Nextflow pipeline.</p>", "keywords": ["DNA", " Bacterial", "1303 Biochemistry", "gut microbiome", "610 Medicine & health", "Microbiology", "Workflow", "1311 Genetics", "RNA", " Ribosomal", " 16S", "1312 Molecular Biology", "1706 Computer Science Applications", "DNA Barcoding", " Taxonomic", "Humans", "DNA sequencing", "Bacteria", "10179 Institute of Medical Microbiology", "Microbiota", "2404 Microbiology", "1314 Physiology", "bioinformatics", "QR1-502", "Nanopore Sequencing", "1105 Ecology", " Evolution", " Behavior and Systematics", "Spectrometry", " Mass", " Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization", "570 Life sciences; biology", "2611 Modeling and Simulation", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00859-24"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/mSystems", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1128/msystems.00859-24", "name": "item", "description": "10.1128/msystems.00859-24", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1128/msystems.00859-24"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-04-11T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1146/annurev-food-052720-010751", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:18:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-10-22", "title": "Next-generation food research: Use of meta-omic approaches for characterizing microbial communities along the food chain", "description": "<p> Microorganisms exist along the food chain and impact the quality and safety of foods in both positive and negative ways. Identifying and understanding the behavior of these microbial communities enable the implementation of preventative or corrective measures in public health and food industry settings. Current culture-dependent microbial analyses are time-consuming and target only specific subsets of microbes. However, the greater use of culture-independent meta-omic approaches has the potential to facilitate a thorough characterization of the microbial communities along the food chain. Indeed, these methods have shown potential in contributing to outbreak investigation, ensuring food authenticity, assessing the spread ofantimicrobial resistance, tracking microbial dynamics during fermentation and processing, and uncovering the factors along the food chain that impact food quality and safety. This review examines the community-based approaches, and particularly the application of sequencing-based meta-omics strategies, for characterizing microbial communities along the food chain. </p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "High-throughput sequencing", "Food Chain", "Food microbiome", "Microbiota", "high-throughput sequencing", "Meta-omic approaches", "food processing environment", "3. Good health", "meta-omic approaches", "03 medical and health sciences", "food-processing environment", "food microbiome; food-processing environment; high-throughput sequencing; meta-omic approaches; Fermentation; Food Industry; Food Chain; Microbiota", "food microbiome", "Fermentation", "Food Industry", "Food-processing environment"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-food-052720-010751"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-food-052720-010751"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Annual%20Review%20of%20Food%20Science%20and%20Technology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1146/annurev-food-052720-010751", "name": "item", "description": "10.1146/annurev-food-052720-010751", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1146/annurev-food-052720-010751"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-03-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s12916-021-01913-w", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:18:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-02-11", "title": "High intake of vegetables is linked to lower white blood cell profile and the effect is mediated by the gut microbiome", "description": "Abstract                 Background                 <p>Chronic inflammation, which can be modulated by diet, is linked to high white blood cell counts and correlates with higher cardiometabolic risk and risk of more severe infections, as in the case of COVID-19.</p>                                Methods                 <p>Here, we assessed the association between white blood cell profile (lymphocytes, basophils, eosinophils, neutrophils, monocytes and total white blood cells) as markers of chronic inflammation, habitual diet and gut microbiome composition (determined by sequencing of the 16S RNA) in 986 healthy individuals from the PREDICT-1 nutritional intervention study. We then investigated whether the gut microbiome mediates part of the benefits of vegetable intake on lymphocyte counts.</p>                                Results                 <p>Higher levels of white blood cells, lymphocytes and basophils were all significantly correlated with lower habitual intake of vegetables, with vegetable intake explaining between 3.59 and 6.58% of variation in white blood cells after adjusting for covariates and multiple testing using false discovery rate (q\uffe2\uff80\uff89&lt;\uffe2\uff80\uff890.1). No such association was seen with fruit intake. A mediation analysis found that 20.00% of the effect of vegetable intake on lymphocyte counts was mediated by one bacterial genus, Collinsella, known to increase with the intake of processed foods and previously associated with fatty liver disease. We further correlated white blood cells to other inflammatory markers including IL6 and GlycA, fasting and post-prandial glucose levels and found a significant relationship between inflammation and diet.</p>                                Conclusion                 <p>A habitual diet high in vegetables, but not fruits, is linked to a lower inflammatory profile for white blood cells, and a fifth of the effect is mediated by the genus Collinsella.</p>                                Trial registration                 <p>The ClinicalTrials.gov registration identifier is NCT03479866.</p>", "keywords": ["Adult", "Male", "0301 basic medicine", "610", "Leukocyte Count", "03 medical and health sciences", "RNA", " Ribosomal", " 16S", "Leukocytes", "Humans", "Lymphocyte Count", "White blood cell", " Gut microbiome", " Diet", " Vegetable intake", " Chronic inflammation", "White blood cell", "Clostridium", "2. Zero hunger", "Gut microbiome", "Clostridiales", "0303 health sciences", "Mediation Analysis", "Interleukin-6", "R", "COVID-19", "Chronic inflammation; Diet; Gut microbiome; Vegetable intake; White blood cell", "Chronic inflammation", "General Medicine", "Fasting", "Middle Aged", "Diet", "Gastrointestinal Microbiome", "3. Good health", "Actinobacteria", "Vegetable intake", "Fruit", "Medicine", "Female", "Biomarkers", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://air.unimi.it/bitstream/2434/1101012/2/s12916-021-01913-w.pdf"}, {"href": "https://iris.unitn.it/bitstream/11572/329112/1/s12916-021-01913-w.pdf"}, {"href": "http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12916-021-01913-w.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-01913-w"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/BMC%20Medicine", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s12916-021-01913-w", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s12916-021-01913-w", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s12916-021-01913-w"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-02-11T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s40168-021-01144-4", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:18:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-09-20", "title": "Trophic level drives the host microbiome of soil invertebrates at a continental scale", "description": "Abstract                 Background                 <p>Increasing our knowledge of soil biodiversity is fundamental to forecast changes in ecosystem functions under global change scenarios. All multicellular organisms are now known to be holobionts, containing large assemblages of microbial species. Soil fauna is now known to have thousands of species living within them. However, we know very little about the identity and function of host microbiome in contrasting soil faunal groups, across different terrestrial biomes, or at a large spatial scale. Here, we examined the microbiomes of multiple functionally important soil fauna in contrasting terrestrial ecosystems across China.</p>                                Results                 <p>Different soil fauna had diverse and unique microbiomes, which were also distinct from those in surrounding soils. These unique microbiomes were maintained within taxa across diverse sampling sites and in contrasting terrestrial ecosystems. The microbiomes of nematodes, potworms, and earthworms were more difficult to predict using environmental data, compared to those of collembolans, oribatid mites, and predatory mites. Although stochastic processes were important, deterministic processes, such as host selection, also contributed to the assembly of unique microbiota in each taxon of soil fauna. Microbial biodiversity, unique microbial taxa, and microbial dark matter (defined as unidentified microbial taxa) all increased with trophic levels within the soil food web.</p>                                Conclusions                 <p>Our findings demonstrate that soil animals are important as repositories of microbial biodiversity, and those at the top of the food web harbor more diverse and unique microbiomes. This hidden source of biodiversity is rarely considered in biodiversity and conservation debates and stresses the importance of preserving key soil invertebrates.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "Microbial dark matter", "Trophic dynamics", "Research", "Microbiota", "QR100-130", "Biodiversity", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "Invertebrates", "Microbial ecology", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "Soil food web", "13. Climate action", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "Host microbiome", "Animals", "Network analysis", "Continental-scale survey", "Deterministic process", "Unique microbial taxa", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-021-01144-4"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microbiome", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s40168-021-01144-4", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s40168-021-01144-4", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s40168-021-01144-4"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-09-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s40793-022-00407-3", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:18:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-04-01", "title": "Rhizosheath\u2013root system changes exopolysaccharide content but stabilizes bacterial community across contrasting seasons in a desert environment", "description": "Abstract                 Background                 <p>In hot deserts daily/seasonal fluctuations pose great challenges to the resident organisms. However, these extreme ecosystems host unique microenvironments, such as the rhizosheath\uffe2\uff80\uff93root system of desert speargrasses in which biological activities and interactions are facilitated by milder conditions and reduced fluctuations. Here, we examined the bacterial microbiota associated with this structure and its surrounding sand in the desert speargrass Stipagrostis pungens under the contrasting environmental conditions of summer and winter in the Sahara Desert.</p>                                Results                 <p>The belowground rhizosheath\uffe2\uff80\uff93root system has higher nutrient and humidity contents, and cooler temperatures than the surrounding sand. The plant responds to the harsh environmental conditions of the summer by increasing the abundance and diversity of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) compared to the winter. On the contrary, the bacterial community associated with the rhizosheath\uffe2\uff80\uff93root system and its interactome remain stable and, unlike the bulk sand, are unaffected by the seasonal environmental variations. The rhizosheath\uffe2\uff80\uff93root system bacterial communities are consistently dominated by Actinobacteria and Alphaproteobacteria and form distinct bacteria communities from those of bulk sand in the two seasons. The microbiome-stabilization mediated by the plant host acts to consistently retain beneficial bacteria with multiple plant growth promoting functions, including those capable to produce EPS, which increase the sand water holding capacity ameliorating the rhizosheath micro-environment.</p>                                Conclusions                 <p>Our results reveal the capability of plants in desert ecosystems to stabilize their below ground microbial community under seasonal contrasting environmental conditions, minimizing the heterogeneity of the surrounding bulk sand and contributing to the overall holobiont resilience under poly-extreme conditions.</p>", "keywords": ["Desert; Desertification; Environmental fluctuation; Environmentally-independent microbiome; Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS); PGP microorganisms; Plant legacy; Plant-microbiome; Rhizosheath", "Plant legacy", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Environmentally-independent microbiome", "15. Life on land", "Rhizosheath", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "Environmental fluctuation", "Environmental sciences", "Plant-microbiome", "03 medical and health sciences", "PGP microorganisms", "13. Climate action", "Desert; Desertification; Environmental fluctuation; Environmentally-independent microbiome; Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS); PGP microorganisms; Plant legacy; Plant-microbiome; Rhizosheath;", "Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS)", "GE1-350", "Desert", "Desertification", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://air.unimi.it/bitstream/2434/921619/2/Marasco%20et%20al.%202022_Rhizosheat%20bact%20comm_EnvMicrobiome.pdf"}, {"href": "https://iris.unive.it/bitstream/10278/5089931/1/doi.org%3a10.1186%3as40793-022-00407-3.pdf"}, {"href": "https://arpi.unipi.it/bitstream/11568/1159772/2/Marasco%20et%20al.%20-%202022%20-%20Rhizosheath%e2%80%93root%20system%20changes%20exopolysaccharide%20.pdf"}, {"href": "https://flore.unifi.it/bitstream/2158/1285602/1/Marasco%20et%20al%20Env%20Microbiome%202022.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-022-00407-3"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Microbiome", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s40793-022-00407-3", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s40793-022-00407-3", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s40793-022-00407-3"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s40793-025-00715-4", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:18:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-05-21", "title": "Plant microbiome responses to bioinoculants and volatiles", "description": "Abstract                        Background             <p>There is an increase in the adoption of biological solutions for plant production as a means of attaining sustainable agriculture. A detailed understanding of the influence of specific bioinoculants and their volatile metabolites on native soil and plant microbiomes can improve future microbiome management practices.</p>                                   Results             <p>Here, we examined the effect of bacterial inoculants and volatile compounds as individual and combined treatments on apple plant and soil microbiome. The study used specially designed microcosms that facilitated the separation of the different plant compartments. A compartment- and soil-specific effect of treatments on the native soil and plant microbiome was observed. The live bacterial inoculants as compared to their volatiles had a stronger effect on the plant and soil microbiome, particularly the root microbial community. The combined effect of bacterial inoculants was higher compared to volatiles (R2\uffe2\uff80\uff89=\uffe2\uff80\uff895% vs. 3%). Treatment-specific effects were observed, like the influence of 2-butanone on the phyllosphere bacterial diversity, and an increase in fungal richness in Serratia-treated soils.</p>                                   Conclusions             <p>Among the examined treatments, inoculation with bacteria compared to volatile metabolites induced more significant shifts within the plant and soil microbiome. This observation has implications regarding the merits of applying living microorganisms. 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