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Soils from the Boston-Area Climate Experiment (BACE), which is located in an old field (on abandoned farmland), were used to examine how climate variables affect enzyme activities and microbial biomass carbon (MBC) in different seasons and in soils exposed to a combination of three levels of precipitation treatments (ambient, 150% of ambient during growing season, and 50% of ambient year-round) and four levels of warming treatments (unwarmed to ~4\u00b0C above ambient) over the course of a year. Warming, precipitation and season had very little effect on potential enzyme activity. Most models assume that enzyme dynamics follow microbial biomass, because enzyme production should be directly controlled by the size and activity of microbial biomass. We observed differences among seasons and treatments in mass-specific potential enzyme activity, suggesting that this assumption is invalid. In June 2009, mass-specific potential enzyme activity, using chloroform fumigation-extraction MBC, increased with temperature, peaking under medium warming and then declining under the highest warming. This finding suggests that either enzyme production increased with temperature or turnover rates decreased. Increased maintenance costs associated with warming may have resulted in increased mass-specific enzyme activities due to increased nutrient demand. Our research suggests that allocation of resources to enzyme production could be affected by climate-induced changes in microbial efficiency and maintenance costs.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "570", "decomposition", "550", "microbial biomass", "Nitrogen", "carbon", "enzymes", "temperature", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "precipitation", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "nitrogen", "Carbon", "QR1-502", "6. Clean water", "Enzymes", "13. 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This large quantity of SOC accumulated over millennia due to slow rates of decomposition relative to net primary productivity. Decomposition is constrained by low temperatures and nutrient concentrations, which limit soil microbial activity. We investigated how nutrients limit bacterial and fungal biomass and community composition in organic and mineral soils within moist acidic tussock tundra ecosystems. We sampled two experimental arrays of moist acidic tussock tundra that included fertilized and non-fertilized control plots. One array included plots that had been fertilized annually since 1989 and the other since 2006. Fertilization significantly altered overall bacterial community composition and reduced evenness, to a greater degree in organic than mineral soils, and in the 1989 compared to the 2006 site. The relative abundance of copiotrophic \u03b1-Proteobacteria and \u03b2-Proteobacteria was higher in fertilized than control soils, and oligotrophic Acidobacteria were less abundant in fertilized than control soils at the 1989 site. Fungal community composition was less sensitive to increased nutrient availability, and fungal responses to fertilization were not consistent between soil horizons and sites. We detected two ectomycorrhizal genera, Russula and Cortinarius spp., associated with shrubs. Their relative abundance was not affected by fertilization despite increased dominance of their host plants in the fertilized plots. Our results indicate that fertilization, which has been commonly used to simulate warming in Arctic tundra, has limited applicability for investigating fungal dynamics under warming.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "550", "Bacteria", "Nitrogen", "Fungi", "Phosphorus", "15. 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However, we have limited knowledge about its impacts on the microorganisms, which act as a 'valve' between carbon sequestered in soils versus released into the atmosphere. In this study we examined microbial response to continuous 9-years manipulation of three global change factors (elevated CO2, warming, and nitrogen deposition), singly and in combination using two methods: lipid and amino sugar biomarkers at the Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment (JRGCE). The two methods yielded important distinctions. There were limited microbial lipid differences, but many significant effects for microbial amino sugars. We found that CO2 was not a direct factor influencing soil carbon and major amino sugar pools, but had a positive impact on bacterial-derived muramic acid. Likewise, warming and nitrogen deposition appeared to enrich residues specific to bacteria despite an overall depletion in total amino sugars. The results indicate that elevated CO2, warming, and nitrogen deposition all appeared to increase bacterial-derived residues, but this accumulation effect was far offset by a corresponding decline in fungal residues. The sensitivity of microbial residue biomarker amino sugars to warming and nitrogen deposition may have implications for our predictions of global change impacts on soil stored carbon.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "elevated CO2", "warming", "microbial biomass", "soil carbon stabilization", "microbial residue", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Lipid", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "01 natural sciences", "QR1-502", "nitrogen deposition", "Amino sugar", "lipid", "13. 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We investigated the effects of N amendment on soil microbial dynamics in a Larrea tridentata-Ambrosia dumosa shrubland site in southern Nevada USA. Sites were fertilized with a NO3-NH4 mix at 0, 7, and 15 kg N ha(-1) y(-1) from March 2012 to March 2013. In March 2013, biocrust (0-0.5 cm) and bulk soils (0-10 cm) were collected beneath Ambrosia canopies and in the interspaces between plants. Biomass responses were assessed as bacterial and fungal SSU rRNA gene copy number and chlorophyll a concentration. Metabolic responses were measured by five ecoenzyme activities and rates of N transformation. By most measures, nutrient availability, microbial biomass, and process rates were greater in soils beneath the shrub canopy compared to the interspace between plants, and greater in the surface biocrust horizon compared to the deeper 10 cm soil profile. Most measures responded positively to experimental N addition. Effect sizes were generally greater for bulk soil than biocrust. Results were incorporated into a meta-analysis of arid ecosystem responses to N amendment that included data from 14 other studies. Effect sizes were calculated for biomass and metabolic responses. Regressions of effect sizes, calculated for biomass, and metabolic responses, showed similar trends in relation to N application rate and N load (rate \u00d7 duration). The critical points separating positive from negative treatment effects were 88 kg ha(-1) y(-1) and 159 kg ha(-1), respectively, for biomass, and 70 kg ha(-1) y(-1) and 114 kg ha(-1), respectively, for metabolism. These critical values are comparable to those for microbial biomass, decomposition rates and respiration reported in broader meta-analyses of N amendment effects in mesic ecosystems. However, large effect sizes at low N addition rates indicate that arid ecosystems are sensitive to modest increments in anthropogenic N deposition.", "keywords": ["2. 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The widely-spaced plants and interspace biological soil crusts in these regions provide soil nutrients in a localized fashion, creating a mosaic pattern of plant- or crust-associated microhabitats with distinct nutrient composition. With sporadic and limited rainfall, nutrients are primarily retained in the shallow surface soil, patterning biological activity. We examined soil bacterial and fungal community responses to simulated nitrogen (N) deposition in an arid Larrea tridentata-Ambrosia dumosa field experiment in southern Nevada, USA, using high-throughput sequencing of ribosomal RNA genes. To examine potential interactions among the N application, microhabitat and soil depth, we sampled soils associated with shrub canopies and interspace biological crusts at two soil depths (0-0.5 or 0-10 cm) across the N-amendment gradient (0, 7, and 15 kg ha(-1) yr(-1)). We hypothesized that localized compositional differences in soil microbiota would constrain the impacts of N addition to a microhabitat distribution that would reflect highly localized geochemical conditions and microbial community composition. The richness and community composition of both bacterial and fungal communities differed significantly by microhabitat and with soil depth in each microhabitat. Only bacterial communities exhibited significant responses to the N addition. Community composition correlated with microhabitat and depth differences in soil geochemical features. Given the distinct roles of soil bacteria and fungi in major nutrient cycles, the resilience of fungi and sensitivity of bacteria to N amendments suggests that increased N input predicted for many arid ecosystems could shift nutrient cycling toward pathways driven primarily by fungal communities.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "biological soil crusts", "0303 health sciences", "microhabitat", "soil bacterial community", "dryland", "15. Life on land", "soil fungal community", "Microbiology", "Shrubland", "QR1-502", "6. Clean water", "03 medical and health sciences", "Soil bacterial community", "shrubland", "ribosomal RNA", "global change"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Cheryl R. Kuske, Jayne Belnap, Rebecca C. 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A generalized cork oak decline has been occurring in the last decades jeopardizing its future sustainability. It is unknown how loss of tree cover affects microbial processes that are consuming greenhouse gases in the montado ecosystem. The study was conducted under two different conditions in the natural understory of a cork oak woodland in center Portugal: under tree canopy (UC) and open areas without trees (OA). Fluxes of methane and nitrous oxide were measured with a static chamber technique. In order to quantify methanotrophs and bacteria capable of nitrous oxide consumption, we used quantitative real-time PCR targeting the pmoA and nosZ genes encoding the subunit of particulate methane mono-oxygenase and catalytic subunit of the nitrous oxide reductase, respectively. A significant seasonal effect was found on CH4 and N2O fluxes and pmoA and nosZ gene abundance. Tree cover had no effect on methane fluxes; conversely, whereas the UC plots were net emitters of nitrous oxide, the loss of tree cover resulted in a shift in the emission pattern such that the OA plots were a net sink for nitrous oxide. In a seasonal time scale, the UC had higher gene abundance of Type I methanotrophs. Methane flux correlated negatively with abundance of Type I methanotrophs in the UC plots. Nitrous oxide flux correlated negatively with nosZ gene abundance at the OA plots in contrast to that at the UC plots. In the UC soil, soil organic matter had a positive effect on soil extracellular enzyme activities, which correlated positively with the N2O flux. Our results demonstrated that tree cover affects soil properties, key enzyme activities and abundance of microorganisms and, consequently net CH4 and N2O exchange.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "nitrous oxide", "methane", "enzymes", "Nitrous Oxide", "Mediterranean", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "Enzymes", "03 medical and health sciences", "methanotrophs", "nosZ", "13. 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It is a globally important biogeochemical process that can be suppressed by anthropogenic N deposition. In a northern hardwood forest ecosystem located in Michigan, USA, 20 years of experimentally increased atmospheric N deposition has reduced forest floor decay and increased soil C storage. Here, we paired extracellular enzyme assays with shotgun metagenomics to assess if anthropogenic N deposition has altered the functional potential of microbial communities inhabiting decaying forest floor. Experimental N deposition significantly reduced the activity of extracellular enzymes mediating plant cell wall decay, which occurred concurrently with changes in the relative abundance of metagenomic functional gene pathways mediating the metabolism of carbohydrates, aromatic compounds, as well as microbial respiration. Moreover, experimental N deposition increased the relative abundance of 50 of the 60 gene pathways, the majority of which were associated with saprotrophic bacteria. Conversely, the relative abundance and composition of fungal genes mediating the metabolism of plant litter was not affected by experimental N deposition. Future rates of atmospheric N deposition have favored saprotrophic soil bacteria, whereas the metabolic potential of saprotrophic fungi appears resilient to this agent of environmental change. Results presented here provide evidence that changes in the functional capacity of saprotrophic soil microorganisms mediate how anthropogenic N deposition increases C storage in soil.", "keywords": ["saprotroph", "2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "Climate Change", "C storage", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "metagenome", "N deposition", "QR1-502", "03 medical and health sciences", "climate change", "13. 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We compared bacterial and fungal community composition and diversity between primary mixed dipterocarp, secondary mixed dipterocarp, white sand heath, inland heath, and peat swamp forests in Brunei Darussalam, Northwest Borneo by analyzing Illumina Miseq sequence data of 16S rRNA gene and ITS1 region. We hypothesized that white sand heath, inland heath and peat swamp forests would show lower microbial diversity and relatively distinct microbial communities (compared to MDF primary and secondary forests) due to their distinctive environments. We found that soil properties together with bacterial and fungal communities varied significantly between forest types. Alpha and beta-diversity of bacteria was highest in secondary dipterocarp and white sand heath forests. Also, bacterial alpha diversity was strongly structured by pH, adding another instance of this widespread pattern in nature. The alpha diversity of fungi was equally high in all forest types except peat swamp forest, although fungal beta-diversity was highest in primary and secondary mixed dipterocarp forests. The relative abundance of ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungi varied significantly between forest types, with highest relative abundance observed in MDF primary forest. Overall, our results suggest that the soil bacterial and fungal communities in these forest types are to a certain extent predictable and structured by soil properties, but that diversity is not determined by how distinctive the conditions are. This contrasts with the diversity patterns seen in rainforest trees, where distinctive soil conditions have consistently lower tree diversity.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "southeast asia", "microbial communities", "Biodiversity", "15. Life on land", "Southeast Asia", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "soil pH", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. 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However, little is known about the dynamic response of bacterial communities to fertilization regimes across crop growth stages. In this study, we examined microbial community structure and diversity across eight representative growth stages of wheat-rice rotation under four different fertilization treatments: no nitrogen fertilizer (NNF), chemical fertilizer (CF), organic-inorganic mixed fertilizer (OIMF), and OF. Quantitative PCR (QPCR) and high-throughput sequencing of bacterial 16S rRNA gene fragments revealed that growth stage as the best predictor of bacterial community abundance and structure. Additionally, bacterial community compositions differed between wheat and rice rotations. Relative to soils under wheat rotation, soils under rice rotation contained higher relative abundances (RA) of anaerobic and mesophilic microbes and lower RA of aerophilic microbes. With respect to fertilization regime, NNF plots had a higher abundance of nitrogen-fixing Cyanobacteria. OIMF had a lower abundance of ammonia-oxidizing Thaumarchaeota compared with CF. Application of chemical fertilizers (CF and OIMF treatments) significantly increased the abundance of some generally oligotrophic bacteria such those belonging to the Acidobacteria, while more copiotrophic of the phylum Proteobacteria increased with OF application. A high correlation coefficient was found when comparing RA of Acidobacteria based upon QPCR vs. sequence analysis, yet poor correlations were found for the \u03b1- and \u03b2- Proteobacteria, highlighting the caution required when interpreting these molecular data. In total, crop, fertilization scheme and plant developmental stage all influenced soil microbial community structure, but not total levels of alpha diversity.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Growth stage", "Fertilization regime", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "bacterial community", "Microbiology", "Bacterial communities", "QR1-502", "growth stage", "fertilization regime", "wheat-rice rotation system", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "dynamic variation", "Wheat-rice rotation system", "Dynamic variation"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01207"}, {"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.2016.01207", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2016.01207", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01207"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-08-03T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2016.01247", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-08-08", "title": "Soil Fungal:Bacterial Ratios Are Linked to Altered Carbon Cycling", "description": "Despite several lines of observational evidence, there is a lack of consensus on whether higher fungal:bacterial (F:B) ratios directly cause higher soil carbon (C) storage. We employed RNA sequencing, protein profiling and isotope tracer techniques to evaluate whether differing F:B ratios are associated with differences in C storage. A mesocosm (13)C labeled foliar litter decomposition experiment was performed in two soils that were similar in their physico-chemical properties but differed in microbial community structure, specifically their F:B ratio (determined by PLFA analyses, RNA sequencing and protein profiling; all three corroborating each other). Following litter addition, we observed a consistent increase in abundance of fungal phyla; and greater increases in the fungal dominated soil; implicating the role of fungi in litter decomposition. Litter derived (13)C in respired CO2 was consistently lower, and residual (13)C in bulk SOM was higher in high F:B soil demonstrating greater C storage potential in the F:B dominated soil. We conclude that in this soil system, the increased abundance of fungi in both soils and the altered C cycling patterns in the F:B dominated soils highlight the significant role of fungi in litter decomposition and indicate that F:B ratios are linked to higher C storage potential.", "keywords": ["Microbiology (medical)", "Proteomics", "0301 basic medicine", "environment/Bioclimatology", "Supplementary Data", "[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes", "stable isotopes", "litter decomposition", "Microbiology", "03 medical and health sciences", "proteomics", "[SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry", "[SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology", "[SDU.STU.GC] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry", "soil carbon", "European Commission", "bacteria", "Stable isotopes", "2. Zero hunger", "655240", "0303 health sciences", "Bacteria", "Litter decomposition", "Fungi", "RNA sequencing", "QR Microbiology", "15. 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Clean water", "QR", "[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "[SDE.MCG] Environmental Sciences/Global Changes", "[SDV.EE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology", " environment", "[SDV.EE.BIO] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology", " environment/Bioclimatology", "[SDV.EE.BIO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology", "fungi", "[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", "environment"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01247"}, {"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.2016.01247", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2016.01247", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01247"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-08-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2016.01446", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-09-14", "description": "Soil management is fundamental to all agricultural systems and fertilization practices have contributed substantially to the impressive increases in food production. Despite the pivotal role of soil microorganisms in agro-ecosystems, we still have a limited understanding of the complex response of the soil microbiota to organic and mineral fertilization in the very long-term. Here, we report the effects of different fertilization regimes (mineral, organic and combined mineral and organic fertilization), carried out for more than a century, on the structure and activity of the soil microbiome. Organic matter content, nutrient concentrations, and microbial biomass carbon were significantly increased by mineral, and even more strongly by organic fertilization. Pyrosequencing revealed significant differences between the structures of bacterial and fungal soil communities associated to each fertilization regime. Organic fertilization increased bacterial diversity, and stimulated microbial groups (Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, and Zygomycota) that are known to prefer nutrient-rich environments, and that are involved in the degradation of complex organic compounds. In contrast, soils not receiving manure harbored distinct microbial communities enriched in oligotrophic organisms adapted to nutrient-limited environments, as Acidobacteria. The fertilization regime also affected the relative abundances of plant beneficial and detrimental microbial taxa, which may influence productivity and stability of the agroecosystem. As expected, the activity of microbial exoenzymes involved in carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous mineralization were enhanced by both types of fertilization. However, in contrast to comparable studies, the highest chitinase and phosphatase activities were observed in the solely mineral fertilized soil. Interestingly, these two enzymes showed also a particular high biomass-specific activities and a strong negative relation with soil pH. As many soil parameters are known to change slowly, the particularity of unchanged fertilization treatments since 1902 allows a profound assessment of linkages between management and abiotic as well as biotic soil parameters. Our study revealed that pH and TOC were the majors, while nitrogen and phosphorous pools were minors, drivers for structure and activity of the soil microbial community. Due to the long-term treatments studied, our findings likely represent permanent and stable, rather than transient, responses of soil microbial communities to fertilization.", "keywords": ["Soil nutrients", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "long-term fertilization", "microbial biomass", "15. Life on land", "microbial activity", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "soil microbial communities", "soil nutrients", "454 pyrosequencing"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01446"}, {"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.2016.01446", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2016.01446", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01446"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-09-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2016.01893", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-11-28", "title": "Long-Term Application Of Bioorganic Fertilizers Improved Soil Biochemical Properties And Microbial Communities Of An Apple Orchard Soil", "description": "Soil biochemical properties and microbial communities are usually considered as important indicators of soil health because of their association with plant nutrition. In this study, we investigated the impact of long-term application of bioorganic fertilizer (BOF) on soil biochemical properties and microbial communities in the apple orchard soil of the Loess Plateau. The experiment included three treatments: (1) control without fertilization (CK); (2) chemical fertilizer application (CF); and (3) bioorganic fertilizer application (BOF). The high throughput sequencing was used to examine the bacterial and fungal communities in apple orchard soil. The results showed that the BOF treatment significantly increased the apple yield during the experimental time (2009-2015). The application of BOF significantly increased the activities of catalase and invertase compared to those in CK and CF treatments. The high throughput sequencing data showed that the application of BOF changed the microbial community composition of all soil depths considered (0-20 cm, 20-40 cm, and 40-60 cm), e.g., the relative abundance of bio-control bacteria (Xanthomonadales, Lysobacter, Pseudomonas, and Bacillus), Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Ohtaekwangia, Ilyonectria, and Lecanicillium was increased while that of Acidobacteria, Chloroflexi, Gp4, Gp6 and Sphaerobacter was decreased. The increase in apple yield after the application of BOF might be due to increase in organic matter, total nitrogen and catalase and invertase activities of soil and change in the bacterial community composition by enriching Bacillus, Pseudomonas, Lysobacter, and Ohtaekwangia. These results further enhance the understanding on how BOFs alter soil microbial community composition to stimulate soil productivity.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "composition", "soil microbes", "soil depth", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Bioorganic fertilizers", "Apple yield", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01893"}, {"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.2016.01893", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2016.01893", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01893"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-11-28T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2017.01947", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-10-10", "title": "Nitric Oxide Accumulation: The Evolutionary Trigger for Phytopathogenesis", "description": "Many publications highlight the importance of nitric oxide (NO) in plant-bacteria interactions, either in the promotion of health and plant growth or in pathogenesis. However, the role of NO in the signaling between bacteria and plants and in the fate of their interaction, as well as the reconstruction of their interactive evolution, remains largely unknown. Despite the complexity of the evolution of life on Earth, we explore the hypothesis that denitrification and aerobic respiration were responsible for local NO accumulation, which triggered primordial antagonistic biotic interactions, namely the first phytopathogenic interactions. N-oxides, including NO, could globally accumulate via lightning synthesis in the early anoxic ocean and constitute pools for the evolution of denitrification, considered an early step of the biological nitrogen cycle. Interestingly, a common evolution may be proposed for components of denitrification and aerobic respiration pathways, namely for NO and oxygen reductases, a theory compatible with the presence of low amounts of oxygen before the great oxygenation event (GOE), which was generated by Cyanobacteria. During GOE, the increase in oxygen caused the decrease of Earth's temperature and the consequent increase of oxygen dissolution and availability, making aerobic respiration an increasingly dominant trait of the expanding mesophilic lifestyle. Horizontal gene transfer was certainly important in the joint expansion of mesophily and aerobic respiration. First denitrification steps lead to NO formation through nitrite reductase activity, and NO may further accumulate when oxygen binds NO reductase, resulting in denitrification blockage. The consequent transient NO surplus in an oxic niche could have been a key factor for a successful outcome of an early denitrifying prokaryote able to scavenge oxygen by NO/oxygen reductase or by an independent heterotrophic aerobic respiration pathway. In fact, NO surplus could result in toxicity causing 'the first disease' in oxygen-producing Cyanobacteria. We inspected in bacteria the presence of sequences similar to the NO-producing nitrite reductase nirS gene of Thermus thermophilus, an extreme thermophilic aerobe of the Thermus/Deinococcus group, which constitutes an ancient lineage related to Cyanobacteria. In silico analysis revealed the relationship between the presence of nirS genes and phytopathogenicity in Gram-negative bacteria.", "keywords": ["aerobic respiration", "0301 basic medicine", "denitrification", "Thermus thermophilus", "nitrite reductase NirS", "Horizontal gene transfer", "Denitrific", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "Nitrite reductase NirS", "Ationerobic respiration", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "horizontal gene transfer"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01947"}, {"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.2017.01947", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2017.01947", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01947"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-10-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2018.00149", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-02-23", "title": "Bacterial Preferences for Specific Soil Particle Size Fractions Revealed by Community Analyses", "description": "Genetic fingerprinting demonstrated in previous studies that differently sized soil particle fractions (PSFs; clay, silt, and sand with particulate organic matter (POM)) harbor microbial communities that differ in structure, functional potentials and sensitivity to environmental conditions. To elucidate whether specific bacterial or archaeal taxa exhibit preference for specific PSFs, we examined the diversity of PCR-amplified 16S rRNA genes by high-throughput sequencing using total DNA extracted from three long-term fertilization variants (unfertilized, fertilized with minerals, and fertilized with animal manure) of an agricultural loamy sand soil and their PSFs. The PSFs were obtained by gentle ultrasonic dispersion, wet sieving, and centrifugation. The abundance of bacterial taxa assigned to operational taxonomic units (OTUs) differed less than 2.7% between unfractionated soil and soil based on combined PSFs. Across the three soil variants, no archaeal OTUs, but many bacterial OTUs, the latter representing 34-56% of all amplicon sequences, showed significant preferences for specific PSFs. The sand-sized fraction with POM was the preferred site for members of Bacteroidetes and Alphaproteobacteria, while Gemmatimonadales preferred coarse silt, Actinobacteria and Nitrosospira fine silt, and Planctomycetales clay. Firmicutes were depleted in the sand-sized fraction. In contrast, archaea, which represented 0.8% of all 16S rRNA gene sequences, showed only little preference for specific PSFs. We conclude that differently sized soil particles represent distinct microenvironments that support specific bacterial taxa and that these preferences could strongly contribute to the spatial heterogeneity and bacterial diversity found in soils.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "soil bacteria", "Soil bacteria", "soil DNA", "bacterial diversity", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Soil DNA", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "Soil archaea", "QR1-502", "Archaeal diversity", "Bacterial diversity", "archaeal diversity", "Soil particle size fractions", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "soil particle size fractions", "soil archaea", "16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00149"}, {"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.2018.00149", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2018.00149", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00149"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-02-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2018.00703", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-04-30", "title": "Evaluation of Primers Targeting the Diazotroph Functional Gene and Development of NifMAP \u2013 A Bioinformatics Pipeline for Analyzing nifH Amplicon Data", "description": "Diazotrophic microorganisms introduce biologically available nitrogen (N) to the global N cycle through the activity of the nitrogenase enzyme. The genetically conserved dinitrogenase reductase (nifH) gene is phylogenetically distributed across four clusters (I-IV) and is widely used as a marker gene for N2 fixation, permitting investigators to study the genetic diversity of diazotrophs in nature and target potential participants in N2 fixation. To date there have been limited, standardized pipelines for analyzing the nifH functional gene, which is in stark contrast to the 16S rRNA gene. Here we present a bioinformatics pipeline for processing nifH amplicon datasets - NifMAP ('NifH MiSeq Illumina Amplicon Analysis Pipeline'), which as a novel aspect uses Hidden-Markov Models to filter out homologous genes to nifH. By using this pipeline, we evaluated the broadly inclusive primer pairs (Ueda19F-R6, IGK3-DVV, and F2-R6) that target the nifH gene. To evaluate any systematic biases, the nifH gene was amplified with the aforementioned primer pairs in a diverse collection of environmental samples (soils, rhizosphere and roots samples, biological soil crusts and estuarine samples), in addition to a nifH mock community consisting of six phylogenetically diverse members. We noted that all primer pairs co-amplified nifH homologs to varying degrees; up to 90% of the amplicons were nifH homologs with IGK3-DVV in some samples (rhizosphere and roots from tall oat-grass). In regards to specificity, we observed some degree of bias across the primer pairs. For example, primer pair F2-R6 discriminated against cyanobacteria (amongst others), yet captured many sequences from subclusters IIIE and IIIL-N. These aforementioned subclusters were largely missing by the primer pair IGK3-DVV, which also tended to discriminate against Alphaproteobacteria, but amplified sequences within clusters IIIC (affiliated with Clostridia) and clusters IVB and IVC. Primer pair Ueda19F-R6 exhibited the least bias and successfully captured diazotrophs in cluster I and subclusters IIIE, IIIL, IIIM, and IIIN, but tended to discriminate against Firmicutes and subcluster IIIC. Taken together, our newly established bioinformatics pipeline, NifMAP, along with our systematic evaluations of nifH primer pairs permit more robust, high-throughput investigations of diazotrophs in diverse environments.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "DIVERSITY", "nifH gene", "Microbiology", "03 medical and health sciences", "NifMAP", "Nitrogen fixation", "PARTICULATE METHANE MONOOXYGENASE", "MOLYBDENUM-NITROGENASE", "Primer evaluation", "MICROORGANISMS", "NifH gene", "2. Zero hunger", "106022 Mikrobiologie", "0303 health sciences", "SEQUENCES", "GROUP-IV NITROGENASE", "AMPLIFICATION", "PERFORMANCE", "16. Peace & justice", "QR1-502", "primer evaluation", "nitrogen fixation", "106022 Microbiology", "COMMUNITIES", "N-2 FIXATION", "Illumina amplicon sequencing"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00703"}, {"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.2018.00703", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2018.00703", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00703"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-04-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2018.01176", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-06-08", "title": "Enhanced Bacterial Fitness Under Residual Fluoroquinolone Concentrations Is Associated With Increased Gene Expression in Wastewater-Derived qnr Plasmid-Harboring Strains", "description": "Plasmids harboring qnr genes confer resistance to low fluoroquinolone concentrations. These genes are of significant clinical, evolutionary and environmental importance, since they are widely distributed in a diverse array of natural and clinical environments. We previously extracted and sequenced a large (\u223c185 Kbp) qnrB-harboring plasmid, and several small (\u223c8 Kbp) qnrS-harboring plasmids, from Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from municipal wastewater biosolids, and hypothesized that these plasmids provide host bacteria a selective advantage in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) that often contain residual concentrations of fluoroquinolones. The objectives of this study were therefore to determine the effect of residual fluoroquinolone concentrations on the growth kinetics of qnr plasmid-harboring bacteria; and on the copy number of qnr plasmids and expression of qnr genes. Electrotransformants harboring either one of the two types of plasmids could grow at ciprofloxacin concentrations exceeding 0.5 \u03bcg ml-1, but growth was significantly decreased at concentrations higher than 0.1 \u03bcg ml-1. In contrast, plasmid-free strains failed to grow even at 0.05 \u03bcg ml-1. No differences were observed in plasmid copy number under the tested ciprofloxacin concentrations, but qnr expression increased incrementally from 0 to 0.4 \u03bcg ml-1, suggesting that the transcription of this gene is regulated by antibiotic concentration. This study reveals that wastewater-derived qnr plasmids confer a selective advantage in the presence of residual fluoroquinolone concentrations and provides a mechanistic explanation for this phenomenon.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "qnr genes", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "6. Clean water", "fitness", "3. Good health", "wastewater treatment", "03 medical and health sciences", "qPCR expression analysis", "plasmid", "11. Sustainability", "qnr genes", " wastewater treatment", " plasmid", " qPCR expression analysis", " fitness"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Roberto B. M. Marano, Roberto B. M. Marano, Edouard Jurkevitch, Eddie Cytryn, Ella Kaplan, Ella Kaplan,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01176"}, {"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.2018.01176", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2018.01176", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01176"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-06-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2018.02141", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-09-12", "title": "Pierce's Disease of Grapevines: A Review of Control Strategies and an Outline of an Epidemiological Model", "description": "Xylella fastidiosa is a notorious plant pathogenic bacterium that represents a threat to crops worldwide. Its subspecies, Xylella fastidiosa subsp. fastidiosa is the causal agent of Pierce's disease of grapevines. Pierce's disease has presented a serious challenge for the grapevine industry in the United States and turned into an epidemic in Southern California due to the invasion of the insect vector Homalodisca vitripennis. In an attempt to minimize the effects of Xylella fastidiosa subsp. fastidiosa in vineyards, various studies have been developing and testing strategies to prevent the occurrence of Pierce's disease, i.e., prophylactic strategies. Research has also been undertaken to investigate therapeutic strategies to cure vines infected by Xylella fastidiosa subsp. fastidiosa. This report explicitly reviews all the strategies published to date and specifies their current status. Furthermore, an epidemiological model of Xylella fastidiosa subsp. fastidiosa is proposed and key parameters for the spread of Pierce's disease deciphered in a sensitivity analysis of all model parameters. Based on these results, it is concluded that future studies should prioritize therapeutic strategies, while investments should only be made in prophylactic strategies that have demonstrated promising results in vineyards.", "keywords": ["VECTOR TRANSMISSION", "0301 basic medicine", "VITRIPENNIS HEMIPTERA CICADELLIDAE", "GLASSY-WINGED SHARPSHOOTER", "PARATRANSGENIC CONTROL", "epidemiological model", "control strategies", "BACTERIUM XYLELLA-FASTIDIOSA", "Microbiology", "03 medical and health sciences", "HOT-WATER TREATMENT", "GONATOCERUS-ASHMEADI", "MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION", "Pierce's disease", "Xylella fastidiosa", "2. Zero hunger", "HOMALODISCA-COAGULATA HEMIPTERA", "0303 health sciences", "VITIS-VINIFERA L.", "15. Life on land", "QR1-502", "grapevine", "3. Good health", "[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]", "therapeutic", "prophylactic", "Homalodisca vitripennis", "[INFO.INFO-MO] Computer Science [cs]/Modeling and Simulation"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02141"}, {"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.2018.02141", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2018.02141", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02141"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-09-12T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2019.01087", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-05-15", "title": "Inoculation With Piriformospora indica Is More Efficient in Wild-Type Rice Than in Transgenic Rice Over-Expressing the Vacuolar H+-PPase", "description": "Achieving food security in a context of environmental sustainability is one of the main challenges of the XXI century. Two competing strategies to achieve this goal are the use of genetically modified plants and the use of plant growth promoting microorganisms (PGPMs). However, few studies assess the response of genetically modified plants to PGPMs. The aim of this study was to compare the response of over-expressing the vacuolar H+-PPase (AVP) and wild-type rice types to the endophytic fungus; Piriformospora indica. Oryza sativa plants (WT and AVP) were inoculated with P. indica and 30 days later, morphological, ecophysiological and bioenergetic parameters, and nutrient content were assessed. AVP and WT plant heights were strongly influenced by inoculation with P. indica, which also promoted increases in fresh and dry matter of shoot in both genotypes. This may be related with the stimulatory effect of P. indica on ecophysiological parameters, especially photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance, intrinsic water use efficiency and carboxylation efficiency. However, there were differences between the genotypes concerning the physiological mechanisms leading to biomass increment. In WT plants, inoculation with P. indica stimulated all H+ pumps. However, in inoculated AVP plants, H+-PPase was stimulated, but P- and V-ATPases were inhibited. Fungal inoculation enhanced nutrient uptake in both shoots and roots of WT and AVP plants, compared to uninoculated plants; but among inoculated genotypes, the nutrient uptake was lower in AVP than in WT plants. These results clearly demonstrate that the symbiosis between P. indica and AVP plants did not benefit those plants, which may be related to the inefficient colonization of this fungus on the transgenic plants, demonstrating an incompatibility of this symbiosis, which needs to be further studied.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "endophytic fungus", "photosynthesis", "Oryza sativa", "plant growth", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "6. Clean water", "03 medical and health sciences", "H+ pumps", "H+-PPase"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01087"}, {"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.2019.01087", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2019.01087", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01087"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-05-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2019.01347", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-06-25", "title": "Finding Functional Differences Between Species in a Microbial Community: Case Studies in Wine Fermentation and Kefir Culture", "description": "Microbial life usually takes place in a community where individuals interact, by competition for nutrients, cross-feeding, inhibition by end-products, but also by their spatial distribution. Lactic acid bacteria are prominent members of microbial communities responsible for food fermentations. Their niche in a community depends on their own properties as well as those of the other species. Here, we apply a computational approach, which uses only genomic and metagenomic information and functional annotation of genes, to find properties that distinguish a species from others in the community, as well as to follow individual species in a community. We analyzed isolated and sequenced strains from a kefir community, and metagenomes from wine fermentations. We demonstrate how the distinguishing properties of an organism lead to experimentally testable hypotheses concerning the niche and the interactions with other species. We observe, for example, that L. kefiranofaciens, a dominant organism in kefir, stands out among the Lactobacilli because it potentially has more amino acid auxotrophies. Using metagenomic analysis of industrial wine fermentations we investigate the role of an inoculated L. plantarum in malolactic fermentation. We observed that L. plantarum thrives better on white than on red wine fermentations and has the largest number of phosphotransferase system among the bacteria observed in the wine communities. Also, L. plantarum together with Pantoea, Erwinia, Asaia, Gluconobacter, and Komagataeibacter genera had the highest number of genes involved in biosynthesis of amino acids.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "metagenomics", "0303 health sciences", "microbial communities", "Microbial communities", "Wine", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "Computational biology", "lactic acid bacteria", "03 medical and health sciences", "Kefir", "computational biology", "Lactic acid bacteria", "Metagenomics", "Genomes", "wine", "genomes"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01347"}, {"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.2019.01347", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2019.01347", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01347"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-06-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2019.02018", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-09-06", "title": "Increasing Temperature and Microplastic Fibers Jointly Influence Soil Aggregation by Saprobic Fungi", "description": "Microplastic pollution and increasing temperature have potential to influence soil quality; yet little is known about their effects on soil aggregation, a key determinant of soil quality. Given the importance of fungi for soil aggregation, we investigated the impacts of increasing temperature and microplastic fibers on aggregation by carrying out a soil incubation experiment in which we inoculated soil individually with 5 specific strains of soil saprobic fungi. Our treatments were temperature (ambient temperature of 25\u00b0C or temperature increased by 3\u00b0C, abruptly versus gradually) and microplastic fibers (control and 0.4% w/w). We evaluated the percentage of water stable aggregates (WSA) and hydrolysis of fluorescein diacetate (FDA) as an indicator of fungal biomass. Microplastic fiber addition was the main factor influencing the WSA, decreasing the percentage of WSA except in soil incubated with strain RLCS 01, and mitigated the effects of temperature or even caused more pronounced decrease in WSA under increasing temperature. We also observed clear differences between temperature change patterns. Our study shows that the interactive effects of warming and microplastic fibers are important to consider when evaluating effects of global change on soil aggregation and potentially other soil processes.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "abrupt", "temperature", "579", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "gradual", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "6. Clean water", "soil aggregation", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "fungi", "microplastic"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02018"}, {"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.2019.02018", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2019.02018", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02018"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-09-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2019.02597", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-11-08", "title": "New Insights Into Cinnamoyl Esterase Activity of Oenococcus oeni.", "description": "Some strains of Oenococcus oeni possess cinnamoyl esterase activity that can be relevant in the malolactic stage of wine production liberating hydroxycinnamic acids that are precursors of volatile phenols responsible for sensory faults. The objective of this study was to better understand the basis of the differential activity between strains. After initial screening, five commercial strains of O. oeni were selected, three were found to exhibit cinnamoyl esterase activity (CE+) and two not (CE-). Although the use of functional annotation of genes revealed genotypic variations between the strains, no specific genes common only to the three CE+ strains could explain the different activities. Pasteurized wine was used as a natural source of tartrate esters in growth and metabolism experiments conducted in MRS medium, whilst commercial trans-caftaric acid was used as substrate for enzyme assays. Detoxification did not seem to be the main biological mechanism involved in the activity since unlike its phenolic cleavage products and their immediate metabolites (trans-caffeic acid and 4-ethylcatechol), trans-caftaric acid was not toxic toward O. oeni. In the case of the two CE+ strains OenosTM and CiNeTM, wine-exposed samples showed a more rapid degradation of trans-caftaric acid than the unexposed ones. The CE activity was present in all cell-free extracts of both wine-exposed and unexposed strains, except in the cell-free extracts of the CE- strain CH11TM. This activity may be constitutive rather than induced by exposure to tartrate esters. Trans-caftaric acid was totally cleaved to trans-caffeic acid by cell-free extracts of the three CE+ strains, whilst cell-free extracts of the CE- strain CH16TM showed significantly lower activity, although higher for the strains in experiments with no prior wine exposure. The EstB28 esterase gene, found in the genomes of the 5 strains, did not reveal any difference on the upstream regulation and transport functionality between the strains. This study highlights the complexity of the basis of this activity in wine related O. oeni population. Variable cinnamoyl esterases or/and membrane transport activities in the O. oeni strains analyzed and a possible implication of wine molecules could explain this phenomenon.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "tartrate esters", "cinnamoyl esterase", "Tartrate esters", "Hydroxycinnamic acids", "Wine", "hydroxycinnamic acids", "[SDV.IDA] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food engineering", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "03 medical and health sciences", "Cinnamoyl esterase", "wine", "Oenococcus oeni"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02597"}, {"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.2019.02597", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2019.02597", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02597"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-11-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2019.02694", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-12-10", "title": "The Impact of Soil-Applied Biochars From Different Vegetal Feedstocks on Durum Wheat Plant Performance and Rhizospheric Bacterial Microbiota in Low Metal-Contaminated Soil", "description": "Biochar shapes the soil environment and plant growth. Nevertheless, the mechanisms associated with an improved plant biomass and soil microbiome in low metal-contaminated soils are still unclear. In this study, the influence of biochar on soil physico-chemical properties, plant performance, and rhizosphere microbiota in durum wheat was investigated at the above- and belowground levels. Two kinds of biochar from different feedstocks (wood chips and wheat straw pellets) and two Italian durum wheat varieties, Duilio and Marco Aurelio, were analyzed in a greenhouse using a low-nutrient gleyic fluvisol containing a very small amount of Pb and Zn. Four different treatments were performed: soil-only control (C), soil amended with woody biochar equilibrated with nutrient solution (B1+) and non-activated (B1-), and soil amended with non-activated (B2-) wheat straw biochar. Seven weeks after seed germination, (1) the physico-chemical properties of soil, biochars, and mixtures were assessed; (2) the fresh and dry weight of aboveground plant tissues and roots and other morphometric traits were measured; and (3) metabarcoding of the 16S rRNA bacterial gene was performed on rhizosphere soil samples. The results showed that the biochar from wheat straw had stronger impact on both durum varieties, with higher electrical conductivity, higher levels of available K and Na, and a substantial increase of dissolved Na+, K+, and Cl- ions in pore water. Generally, biochar amendment decreased Zn availability for the plants. In addition, biochar improved plant growth in the early growth stage, and the more positive effect was achieved by combining wheat straw biochar with Marco Aurelio. Rhizosphere bacterial microbiota showed variation in alpha diversity only due to treatment; on the other hand, the differential analysis showed consistent variation among samples with significant effects on amplicon sequence variant (ASV) abundance due to the specific biochar treatment as well as the genotype. The pure B1-, due to its scarce nutrient content with respect to the richer types (B1+ and B2-), had a negative impact on microbiota richness. Our study highlights that an appropriate combination of biochar feedstock and crop species may lead to superior yield.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "low-metal contaminated soil", "biochar; durum wheat; low-metal contaminated soil; rhizosphere bacterial microbiome; vegetal feedstock", "durum wheat", "vegetal feedstock", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "6. Clean water", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "biochar", "rhizosphere bacterial microbiome"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://flore.unifi.it/bitstream/2158/1215663/1/Latini_et_al-2019.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02694"}, {"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.2019.02694", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2019.02694", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02694"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-12-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2020.581997", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-10-20", "title": "Valorization of Vegetable Food Waste and By-Products Through Fermentation Processes", "description": "There is a general interest in finding new ways of valorizing fruit and vegetable processing by-products. With this aim, applications of industrial fermentation to improve nutritional value, or to produce biologically active compounds, have been developed. In this sense, the fermentation of a wide variety of by-products including rice, barley, soya, citrus, and milling by-products has been reported. This minireview gives an overview of recent fermentation-based valorization strategies developed in the last 2 years. To aid the designing of new bioprocesses of industrial interest, this minireview also provides a detailed comparison of the fermentation conditions needed to produce specific bioactive compounds through a simple artificial neural network model. Different applications reported have been focused on increasing the nutritional value of vegetable by-products, while several lactic acid bacteria and Penicillium species have been used to produce high purity lactic acid. Bacteria and fungi like Bacillus subtilis, Rhizopus oligosporus, or Fusarium flocciferum may be used to efficiently produce protein extracts with high biological value and a wide variety of functional carbohydrates and glycosidases have been produced employing Aspergillus, Yarrowia, and Trichoderma species. Fermentative patterns summarized may guide the production of functional ingredients for novel food formulation and the development of low-cost bioprocesses leading to a transition toward a bioeconomy model.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Food waste", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "by-product Valorization", "Bioeconomy", "Microbiology", "01 natural sciences", "QR1-502", "12. Responsible consumption", "microbial fermentation", "lactic acid bacteria", "0404 agricultural biotechnology", "food waste", "By-products valorisation", "Lactic acid bacteria", "Microbial fermentation", "bioeconomy"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.581997"}, {"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.2020.581997", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2020.581997", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2020.581997"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-10-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2021.634325", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-06-17", "title": "How Tillage and Crop Rotation Change the Distribution Pattern of Fungi", "description": "<p>Massive sequencing of fungal communities showed that climatic factors, followed by edaphic and spatial variables, are feasible predictors of fungal richness and community composition. This study, based on a long-term field experiment with tillage and no-tillage management since 1995 and with a crop rotation introduced in 2009, confirmed that tillage practices shape soil properties and impact soil fungal communities. Results highlighted higher biodiversity of saprotrophic fungi in soil sites with low disturbance and an inverse correlation between the biodiversity of ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi. We speculated how their mutual exclusion could be due to a substrate-mediated niche partitioning or by space segregation. Moreover, where the soil was ploughed, the species were evenly distributed. There was higher spatial variability in the absence of ploughing, with fungal taxa distributed according to a small-scale pattern, corresponding to micro-niches that probably remained undisturbed and heterogeneously distributed. Many differentially represented OTUs in all the conditions investigated were unidentified species or OTUs matching at high taxa level (i.e., phylum, class, order). Among the fungi with key roles in all the investigated conditions, there were several yeast species known to have pronounced endemism in soil and are also largely unidentified. In addition to yeasts, other fungal species emerged as either indicator of a kind of management or as strongly associated with a specific condition. Plant residues played a substantial role in defining the assortment of species.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "Agriculture", "indicator value", "15. Life on land", "soil yeasts", "rotation", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "soil", "3. Good health", "FUNGuild database", "03 medical and health sciences", "tillage", "mycorrhizae", "agriculture"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://iris.cnr.it/bitstream/20.500.14243/453431/1/fmicb-12-634325.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.634325"}, {"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.2021.634325", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2021.634325", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2021.634325"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-06-17T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2021.650610", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-04-08", "title": "Microbiome Modulation\u2014Toward a Better Understanding of Plant Microbiome Response to Microbial Inoculants", "description": "<p>Plant-associated microorganisms are involved in important functions related to growth, performance and health of their hosts. Understanding their modes of action is important for the design of promising microbial inoculants for sustainable agriculture. Plant-associated microorganisms are able to interact with their hosts and often exert specific functions toward potential pathogens; the underlying in vitro interactions are well studied. In contrast, in situ effects of inoculants, and especially their impact on the plant indigenous microbiome was mostly neglected so far. Recently, microbiome research has revolutionized our understanding of plants as coevolved holobionts but also of indigenous microbiome-inoculant interactions. Here we disentangle the effects of microbial inoculants on the indigenous plant microbiome and point out the following types of plant microbiome modulations: (i) transient microbiome shifts, (ii) stabilization or increase of microbial diversity, (iii) stabilization or increase of plant microbiome evenness, (iv) restoration of a dysbiosis/compensation or reduction of a pathogen-induced shift, (v) targeted shifts toward plant beneficial members of the indigenous microbiota, and (vi) suppression of potential pathogens. Therefore, we suggest microbiome modulations as novel and efficient mode of action for microbial inoculants that can also be mediated via the plant.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "mode of action", "microbial diversity", "microbiome shift", "healthy plant microbiome", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "holobiont", "12. Responsible consumption"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.650610"}, {"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.2021.650610", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2021.650610", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2021.650610"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-04-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2021.652173", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-06-11", "title": "Assessing METland\u00ae Design and Performance Through LCA: Techno-Environmental Study With Multifunctional Unit Perspective", "description": "<p>Conventional wastewater treatment technologies are costly and energy demanding; such issues are especially remarkable when small communities have to clean up their pollutants. In response to these requirements, a new variety of nature-based solution, so-called METland\uffc2\uffae, has been recently develop by using concepts from Microbial Electrochemical Technologies (MET) to outperform classical constructed wetland regarding wastewater treatment. Thus, the current study evaluates two operation modes (aerobic and aerobic\uffe2\uff80\uff93anoxic) of a full-scale METland\uffc2\uffae, including a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) conducted under a Net Environmental Balance perspective. Moreover, a combined technical and environmental analysis using a Net Eutrophication Balance (NEuB) focus concluded that the downflow (aerobic) mode achieved the highest removal rates for both organic pollutant and nitrogen, and it was revealed as the most environmentally friendly design. Actually, aerobic configuration outperformed anaero/aero-mixed mode in a fold-range from 9 to 30%. LCA was indeed recalculated under diverse Functional Units (FU) to determine the influence of each FU in the impacts. Furthermore, in comparison with constructed wetland, METland\uffc2\uffae showed a remarkable increase in wastewater treatment capacity per surface area (0.6 m2/pe) without using external energy. Specifically, these results suggest that aerobic\uffe2\uff80\uff93anoxic configuration could be more environmentally friendly under specific situations where high N removal is required. The removal rates achieved demonstrated a robust adaptation to influent variations, revealing a removal average of 92% of Biology Oxygen Demand (BOD), 90% of Total Suspended Solids (TSS), 40% of total nitrogen (TN), and 30% of total phosphorus (TP). Moreover, regarding the global warming category, the overall impact was 75% lower compared to other conventional treatments like activated sludge. In conclusion, the LCA revealed that METland\uffc2\uffae appears as ideal solution for rural areas, considering the low energy requirements and high efficiency to remove organic pollutants, nitrogen, and phosphates from urban wastewater.</p>", "keywords": ["Funtional Unit", "treatment wetlands", "Net Environmental Balance", "QS Ecology", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "01 natural sciences", "QR1-502", "6. Clean water", "12. Responsible consumption", "wastewater treatment", "03 medical and health sciences", "0302 clinical medicine", "life cycle assessment", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering", "METland", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.652173"}, {"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.2021.652173", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2021.652173", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2021.652173"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-06-11T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2021.662144", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-07-05", "title": "Whole resistome analysis in Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli genomes available in public repositories", "description": "<p>Campylobacter spp. are the most frequent agent of human gastroenteritis worldwide, and the spread of multidrug-resistant strains makes the clinical treatment difficult. The current study presents the resistome analysis of 39,798 Campylobacter jejuni and 11,920 Campylobacter coli genomes available in public repositories. Determinants of resistance to \uffce\uffb2-lactams (Be) and tetracyclines (Te) were the most frequent for both species, with resistance to quinolones (Qu) as the third most important on C. jejuni and to aminoglycosides (Am) on C. coli. Moreover, resistance to Te, Qu, and Am was frequently found in co-occurrence with resistance to other antibiotic families. Geographical differences on clonal complexes distribution were found for C. jejuni and on resistome genotypes for both C. jejuni and C. coli species. Attending to the resistome patterns by isolation source, three main clusters of genomes were found on C. jejuni genomes at antimicrobial resistance gene level. The first cluster was formed by genomes from human, food production animals (e.g., sheep, cow, and chicken), and food (e.g., dairy products) isolates. The higher incidence of tet(O), associated with tetracycline resistance, and the gyrA (T86I) single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), associated with quinolone resistance, among genomes from this cluster could be due to the intense use of these antibiotics in veterinary and human clinical settings. Similarly, a high incidence of tet(O) genes of C. coli genomes from pig, cow, and turkey was found. Moreover, the cluster based on resistome patterns formed by C. jejuni and C. coli genomes of human, turkey, and chicken origin is in agreement with previous observations reporting chicken or poultry-related environments as the main source of human campylobacteriosis infections. Most clonal complexes (CCs) associated with chicken host specialization (e.g., ST-354, ST-573, ST-464, and ST-446) were the CCs with the highest prevalence of determinants of resistance to Be, Qu, and Te. Finally, a clear trend toward an increase in the occurrence of Te and Qu resistance determinants on C. jejuni, linked to the spread of the co-occurrence of the blaOXA\uffe2\uff80\uff9361 and tet(O)-tet(O/W/O) genes and the gyrA (T86I) SNP, was found from 2001 to date in Europe.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "whole genome sequencing", "0303 health sciences", "livestock and human sources", "Host specialization", "Campylobacter coli", "Gen\u00e9tica", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "Resistome", "Livestock and human sources", "3. Good health", "Campylobacter jejuni", "03 medical and health sciences", "Whole genome sequencing", "host specialization", "14. Life underwater", "resistome"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Jos\u00e9 F. Cobo-D\u00edaz, Paloma Gonz\u00e1lez del R\u00edo, Avelino \u00c1lvarez-Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez, Avelino \u00c1lvarez-Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.662144"}, {"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.2021.662144", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2021.662144", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2021.662144"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-07-05T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2022.981507", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-10-05", "title": "Endophytic fungi from kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala) modify roots-glucosinolate profile and promote plant growth in cultivated Brassica species. First description of Pyrenophora gallaeciana", "description": "<p>Endophytic fungi of crops can promote plant growth through various mechanisms of action (i.e., improve nutrient uptake and nutrient use efficiency, and produce and modulate plant hormones). The genus Brassica includes important horticultural crops, which have been little studied in their interaction with endophytic fungi. Previously, four endophytic fungi were isolated from kale roots (Brassica oleracea var. acephala), with different benefits for their host, including plant growth promotion, cold tolerance, and induction of resistance to pathogens (Xanthomonas campestris) and pests (Mamestra brassicae). In the present work, the molecular and morphological identification of the four different isolates were carried out, describing them as the species Acrocalymma vagum, Setophoma terrestris, Fusarium oxysporum, and the new species Pyrenophora gallaeciana. In addition, using a representative crop of each Brassica U\uffe2\uff80\uff99s triangle species and various in vitro biochemical tests, the ability of these fungi to promote plant growth was described. In this sense, the four fungi used promoted the growth of B. rapa, B. napus, B. nigra, B. juncea, and B. carinata, possibly due to the production of auxins, siderophores, P solubilization or cellulase, xylanase or amylase activity. Finally, the differences in root colonization between the four endophytic fungi and two pathogens (Leptosphaeria maculans and Sclerotinia sclerotiorum) and the root glucosinolate profile were studied, at different times. In this way, how the presence of progoitrin in the roots reduces their colonization by endophytic and pathogenic fungi was determined, while the possible hydrolysis of sinigrin to fungicidal products controls the colonization of endophytic fungi, but not of pathogens.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Brassica U's triangle", "Sinigrin", "Glucosinolates", "Setophoma terrestris", "indoleacetic acid", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "Acrocalymma vagum", "Fusarium oxysporum", "Indoleacetic acid", "03 medical and health sciences", "sinigrin", "Brassica U\u2019s triangle"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.981507"}, {"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.2022.981507", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2022.981507", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2022.981507"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-10-05T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2021.676251", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-06-07", "title": "Dynamics of Soil Bacterial and Fungal Communities During the Secondary Succession Following Swidden Agriculture IN Lowland Forests", "description": "<p>Elucidating dynamics of soil microbial communities after disturbance is crucial for understanding ecosystem restoration and sustainability. However, despite the widespread practice of swidden agriculture in tropical forests, knowledge about microbial community succession in this system is limited. Here, amplicon sequencing was used to investigate effects of soil ages (spanning at least 60 years) after disturbance, geographic distance (from 0.1 to 10 km) and edaphic property gradients (soil pH, conductivity, C, N, P, Ca, Mg, and K), on soil bacterial and fungal communities along a chronosequence of sites representing the spontaneous succession following swidden agriculture in lowland forests in Papua New Guinea. During succession, bacterial communities (OTU level) as well as its abundant (OTU with relative abundance &amp;gt; 0.5%) and rare (&amp;lt;0.05%) subcommunities, showed less variation but more stage-dependent patterns than those of fungi. Fungal community dynamics were significantly associated only with geographic distance, whereas bacterial community dynamics were significantly associated with edaphic factors and geographic distance. During succession, more OTUs were consistently abundant (n = 12) or rare (n = 653) for bacteria than fungi (abundant = 6, rare = 5), indicating bacteria were more tolerant than fungi to environmental gradients. Rare taxa showed higher successional dynamics than abundant taxa, and rare bacteria (mainly from Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, Acidobacteria, and Verrucomicrobia) largely accounted for bacterial community development and niche differentiation during succession.</p", "keywords": ["tropical forests", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "soil microbiome", "11. Sustainability", "ecological succession", "15. Life on land", "rare bacteria and fungi", "Microbiology", "slash-and-burn", "QR1-502"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.676251"}, {"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.2021.676251", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2021.676251", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2021.676251"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-06-07T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2021.678290", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-07-09", "title": "Generalist Taxa Shape Fungal Community Structure in Cropping Ecosystems", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Fungi regulate nutrient cycling, decomposition, symbiosis, and pathogenicity in cropland soils. However, the relative importance of generalist and specialist taxa in structuring soil fungal community remains largely unresolved. We hypothesized that generalist fungi, which are adaptable to various environmental conditions, could potentially dominate the community and become the basis for fungal coexisting networks in cropping systems. In this study, we identified the generalist and habitat specialist fungi in cropland soils across a 2,200 kms environmental gradient, including three bioclimatic regions (subtropical, warm temperate, and temperate). A few fungal taxa in our database were classified as generalist taxa (~1%). These generalists accounted for &amp;gt;35% of the relative abundance of all fungal populations, and most of them are Ascomycota and potentially pathotrophic. Compared to the specialist taxa (5\u201317% of all phylotypes in three regions), generalists had a higher degree of connectivity and were often identified as hub within the network. Structural equation modeling provided further evidence that after accounting for spatial and climatic/edaphic factors, generalists had larger contributions to the fungal coexistence pattern than habitat specialists. Taken together, our study provided evidence that generalist taxa are crucial components for fungal community structure. The knowledge of generalists can provide important implication for understanding the ecological preference of fungal groups in cropland systems.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "570", "0303 health sciences", "500", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "333", "QR1-502", "niche differentiation", "3. Good health", "03 medical and health sciences", "coexistence pattern", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "cropland soil", "soil fungi", "functional traits", "community structure", "ecological network"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.678290"}, {"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.2021.678290", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2021.678290", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2021.678290"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-07-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2021.698491", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-09-03", "title": "Current Methods, Common Practices, and Perspectives in Tracking and Monitoring Bioinoculants in Soil", "description": "<p>Microorganisms promised to lead the bio-based revolution for a more sustainable agriculture. Beneficial microorganisms could be a valid alternative to the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides. However, the increasing use of microbial inoculants is also raising several questions about their efficacy and their effects on the autochthonous soil microorganisms. There are two major issues on the application of bioinoculants to soil: (i) their detection in soil, and the analysis of their persistence and fate; (ii) the monitoring of the impact of the introduced bioinoculant on native soil microbial communities. This review explores the strategies and methods that can be applied to the detection of microbial inoculants and to soil monitoring. The discussion includes a comprehensive critical assessment of the available tools, based on morpho-phenological, molecular, and microscopic analyses. The prospects for future development of protocols for regulatory or commercial purposes are also discussed, underlining the need for a multi-method (polyphasic) approach to ensure the necessary level of discrimination required to track and monitor bioinoculants in soil.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "biopesticides", "0303 health sciences", "soil", " detection", " microbial inoculants", " bacteria", " fungi", " biofertilisers", " biopesticides", " microorganisms", "detection", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "soil", "12. Responsible consumption", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "biofertilisers", "fungi", "microorganisms", "bacteria", "microbial inoculants"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://iris.cnr.it/bitstream/20.500.14243/453430/1/fmicb-12-698491.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.698491"}, {"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.2021.698491", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2021.698491", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2021.698491"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-08-31T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2021.758395", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-01-12", "title": "Fresh rumen liquid inoculant enhances the rumen microbial community establishment in pre-weaned dairy calves", "description": "<p>The development of the functional rumen in calves involves a complex interplay between the host and host-related microbiome. Attempts to modulate rumen microbial community establishment may therefore have an impact on weaning success, calf health, and animal performance later in life. In this experiment, we aimed to elucidate how rumen liquid inoculum from an adult cow, provided to calves during the pre-weaning period, influences the establishment of rumen bacterial, archaeal, fungal, and ciliate protozoan communities in monozygotic twin calves (n = 6 pairs). 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. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "ta412", "Bacteria", "dairy calf", "Animal science", " dairy science", "Archaea", "Ciliate protozoa", "QR1-502", "rumen function", "[SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology", "microbiome manipulation"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.758395"}, {"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.2021.758395", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2021.758395", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2021.758395"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-01-12T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2021.758702", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-10-04", "title": "Isolation, Identification, and Selection of Bacteria With Proof-of-Concept for Bioaugmentation of Whitewater From Wood-Free Paper Mills", "description": "<p>In the wood-free paper industry, whitewater is usually a mixture of additives for paper production. We are currently lacking an efficient, cost-effective purification technology for their removal. In closed whitewater cycles the additives accumulate, causing adverse production problems, such as the formation of slime and pitch. The aim of our study was to find an effective bio-based strategy for whitewater treatment using a selection of indigenous bacterial isolates. We first obtained a large collection of bacterial isolates and then tested them individually by simple plate and spectrophotometric methods for their ability to degrade the papermaking additives, i.e., carbohydrates, resin acids, alkyl ketene dimers, polyvinyl alcohol, latex, and azo and fluorescent dyes. We examined correlation between carbon source use, genera, and inoculum source of isolates using two multivariate methods: principal component analysis and FreeViz projection. Of the 318 bacterial isolates, we selected a consortium of four strains (Xanthomonadales bacterium sp. CST37-CF, Sphingomonas sp. BLA14-CF, Cellulosimicrobium sp. AKD4-BF and Aeromonas sp. RES19-BTP) that degrade the entire spectrum of tested additives by means of dissolved organic carbon measurements. A proof-of-concept study on a pilot scale was then performed by immobilizing the artificial consortium of the four strains and inserting them into a 33-liter, tubular flow-through reactor with a retention time of &amp;lt; 15 h. The consortium caused an 88% reduction in the COD of the whitewater, even after 21 days.</p", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "principal component analysis", "environmental microbiology", "azo dye", "whitewater", "Aeromonas", " azo dye", " bioaugmentation", " principal component analysis", " environmental microbiology", " whitewater", "Aeromonas", "bioaugmentation", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.758702"}, {"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.2021.758702", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2021.758702", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2021.758702"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-12-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2022.1004593", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-11-07", "title": "Melon/cowpea intercropping pattern influenced the N and C soil cycling and the abundance of soil rare bacterial taxa", "description": "<p>The high use of pesticides, herbicides, and unsustainable farming practices resulted in losses of soil quality. Sustainable farming practices such as intercropping could be a good alternative to traditional monocrop, especially using legumes such as cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp). In this study, different melon and cowpea intercropping patterns (melon mixed with cowpea in the same row (MC1); alternating one melon row and one cowpea row (MC2); alternating two melon rows and one cowpea row (MC3)) were assayed to study the intercropping effect on soil bacterial community through 16S rRNA region in a 3-year experiment. The results indicated that intercropping showed high content of total organic carbon, total nitrogen and ammonium, melon yield, and bacterial diversity as well as higher levels of beneficial soil microorganisms such a Pseudomonas, Aeromicrobium, Niastella, or Sphingomonas which can promote plant growth and plant defense against pathogens. Furthermore, intercropping showed a higher rare taxa diversity in two (MC1 and MC2) out of the three intercropping systems. In addition, N-cycling genes such as nirB, nosZ, and amoA were more abundant in MC1 and MC2 whereas the narG predicted gene was far more abundant in the intercropping systems than in the monocrop at the end of the 3-year experiment. This research fills a gap in knowledge about the importance of soil bacteria in an intercropping melon/cowpea pattern, showing the benefits to yield and soil quality with a decrease in N fertilization.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "6. Clean water", "cowpea", "03 medical and health sciences", "melon", "nitrogen cycle", "16S rRNA", "PICRUSt2", "intercropping"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1004593"}, {"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.2022.1004593", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2022.1004593", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1004593"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-11-07T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2022.1032515", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-11-09", "title": "The novel oligopeptide utilizing species Anaeropeptidivorans aminofermentans M3/9T, its role in anaerobic digestion and occurrence as deduced from large-scale fragment recruitment analyses", "description": "<p>Research on biogas-producing microbial communities aims at elucidation of correlations and dependencies between the anaerobic digestion (AD) process and the corresponding microbiome composition in order to optimize the performance of the process and the biogas output. Previously,Lachnospiraceaespecies were frequently detected in mesophilic to moderately thermophilic biogas reactors. To analyze adaptive genome features of a representativeLachnospiraceaestrain,Anaeropeptidivorans aminofermentansM3/9Twas isolated from a mesophilic laboratory-scale biogas plant and its genome was sequenced and analyzed in detail. Strain M3/9Tpossesses a number of genes encoding enzymes for degradation of proteins, oligo- and dipeptides. Moreover, genes encoding enzymes participating in fermentation of amino acids released from peptide hydrolysis were also identified. Based on further findings obtained from metabolic pathway reconstruction, M3/9Twas predicted to participate in acidogenesis within the AD process. To understand the genomic diversity between the biogas isolate M3/9Tand closely relatedAnaerotignumtype strains, genome sequence comparisons were performed. M3/9Tharbors 1,693 strain-specific genes among others encoding different peptidases, a phosphotransferase system (PTS) for sugar uptake, but also proteins involved in extracellular solute binding and import, sporulation and flagellar biosynthesis. In order to determine the occurrence of M3/9Tin other environments, large-scale fragment recruitments with the M3/9Tgenome as a template and publicly available metagenomes representing different environments was performed. The strain was detected in the intestine of mammals, being most abundant in goat feces, occasionally used as a substrate for biogas production.</p", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "570 Biologie", "Microbiology", "7. Clean energy", "renewable energy", "QR1-502", "metagenome", "660.6", "03 medical and health sciences", "Lachnospiraceae", "ddc:570", "omics analyses", "plant biomass hydrolysis"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1032515"}, {"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.2022.1032515", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2022.1032515", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1032515"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-11-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2022.1044446", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-11-10", "title": "Differences in gene expression patterns between cultured and natural Haloquadratum walsbyi ecotypes", "description": "<p>Solar crystallizer ponds are characterized by high population density with a relatively simple community structure in terms of species composition. The microbial community in the solar saltern of Santa Pola (Alicante, Spain), is largely dominated by the hyperhalophilic square archaeon Haloquadratum walsbyi. Here we studied metatranscriptomes retrieved from a crystallizer pond during the winter of 2012 and summer of 2014 and compared Hqr. walsbyi\uffe2\uff80\uff99s transcription patterns with that of the cultured strain Hqr. walsbyi HBSQ001. Significant differences were found between natural and the cultured grown strain in the distribution of transcript levels per gene. This likely reflects the adaptation of the cultured strain to the relative homogeneous growth conditions while the natural species, which is represented by multiple ecotypes, is adapted to heterogeneous environmental conditions and challenges of nutrient competition, viral attack, and other stressors. An important consequence of this study is that expression patterns obtained under artificial cultivation conditions cannot be directly extrapolated to gene expression under natural conditions. Moreover, we found 195 significantly differential expressed genes between the seasons, with 140 genes being higher expressed in winter and mainly encode proteins involved in energy and carbon source acquiring processes, and in stress responses.</p", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "Metatranscriptome", "archaea", "solar saltern", "Solar saltern", "15. Life on land", "Archaea", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "03 medical and health sciences", "Haloquadratum walsbyi", "metatranscriptome", "RNA-seq"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1044446"}, {"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.2022.1044446", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2022.1044446", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1044446"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-11-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2022.912473", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-07-19", "title": "Putative probiotics on growth, behavior, and the gut microbiome of farmed Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus)", "description": "<p>Beneficial bacteria promise to promote the health and productivity of farmed fish species. However, the impact on host physiology is largely strain-dependent, and studies on Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus), a commercially farmed salmonid species, are lacking. In this study, 10 candidate probiotic strains were subjected to in vitro assays, small-scale growth trials, and behavioral analysis with juvenile Arctic char to examine the impact of probiotic supplementation on fish growth, behavior and the gut microbiome. Most strains showed high tolerance to gastric juice and fish bile acid, as well as high auto-aggregation activity, which are important probiotic characteristics. However, they neither markedly altered the core gut microbiome, which was dominated by three bacterial species, nor detectably colonized the gut environment after the 4-week probiotic treatment. Despite a lack of long-term colonization, the presence of the bacterial strains showed either beneficial or detrimental effects on the host through growth rate enhancement or reduction, as well as changes in fish motility under confinement. This study offers insights into the effect of bacterial strains on a salmonid host and highlights three strains, Carnobacterium divergens V41, Pediococcus acidilactici ASG16, and Lactiplantibacillus plantarum ISCAR-07436, for future research into growth promotion of salmonid fish through probiotic supplementation.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "Mycoplasma", "probiotics", "aquaculture", "behavior", "growth", "salmonid", "gut microbiome", "14. Life underwater", "Microbiology", "QR1-502"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.912473"}, {"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.2022.912473", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2022.912473", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2022.912473"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-07-19T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2022.914040", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-06-01", "title": "A Nuclei-Based Conceptual Model of (Eco)evolutionary Dynamics in Fungal Heterokaryons", "description": "<p>Filamentous fungi are characterised by specific features, such as multinuclearity, coexistence of genetically different nuclei and nuclear movement across the mycelial network. These attributes make them an interesting, yet rather underappreciated, system for studying (eco)evolutionary dynamics. This is especially noticeable among theoretical studies, where rather few consider nuclei and their role in (eco)evolutionary dynamics. To encourage such theoretical approaches, we here provide an overview of existing research on nuclear genotype heterogeneity (NGH) and its sources, such as mutations and vegetative non-self-fusion. We then discuss the resulting intra-mycelial nuclear dynamics and the potential consequences for fitness and adaptation. Finally, we formulate a nuclei-based conceptual framework, which considers three levels of selection: a single nucleus, a subpopulation of nuclei and the mycelium. We compare this framework to other concepts, for example those that consider only the mycelium as the level of selection, and outline the benefits of our approach for studying (eco)evolutionary dynamics. Our concept should serve as a baseline for modelling approaches, such as individual-based simulations, which will contribute greatly to our understanding of multilevel selection and (eco)evolutionary dynamics in filamentous fungi.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "570", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "conceptual model", "multinuclearity", "filamentous fungi", "500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie", "heterokaryon", "Microbiology", "(eco)evolutionary dynamics", "QR1-502"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Milica Lakovic, Milica Lakovic, Matthias C. Rillig, Matthias C. Rillig,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.914040"}, {"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.2022.914040", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2022.914040", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2022.914040"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-05-31T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2023.1158130", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-04-21", "title": "Field scale biodegradation of total petroleum hydrocarbons and soil restoration by Ecopiles: microbiological analysis of the process", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Ecopiling is a method for biodegradation of hydrocarbons in soils. It derives from Biopiles, but phytoremediation is added to biostimulation with nitrogen fertilization and bioaugmentation with local bacteria. We have constructed seven Ecopiles with soil heavily polluted with hydrocarbons in Carlow (Ireland). The aim of the study was to analyze changes in the microbial community during ecopiling. In the course of 18\u2009months of remediation, total petroleum hydrocarbons values decreased in 99 and 88% on average for aliphatics and aromatics, respectively, indicating a successful biodegradation. Community analysis showed that bacterial alfa diversity (Shannon Index), increased with the degradation of hydrocarbons, starting at an average value of 7.59 and ending at an average value of 9.38. Beta-diversity analysis, was performed using Bray-Curtis distances and PCoA ordination, where the two first principal components (PCs) explain the 17 and 14% of the observed variance, respectively. The results show that samples tend to cluster by sampling time instead of by Ecopile. This pattern is supported by the hierarchical clustering analysis, where most samples from the same timepoint clustered together. We used DSeq2 to determine the differential abundance of bacterial populations in Ecopiles at the beginning and the end of the treatment. While TPHs degraders are more abundant at the start of the experiment, these populations are substituted by bacterial populations typical of clean soils by the end of the biodegradation process. Similar results are found for the fungal community, indicating that the microbial community follows a succession along the process. This succession starts with a TPH degraders or tolerant enriched community, and finish with a microbial community typical of clean soils.</p></article>", "keywords": ["hydrocarbon", "bioremediation", "microbial succession", "microbiota", "Ecopile", " hydrocarbon", " bioremediation", " microbial succession", " microbiota", "Ecopile", "15. Life on land", "Biolog\u00eda y Biomedicina / Biolog\u00eda", "Microbiology", "6. Clean water", "QR1-502"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1158130"}, {"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.2023.1158130", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2023.1158130", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1158130"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-04-21T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2023.1197770", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-05-24", "title": "Effects of tomato inoculation with the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium brunneum on spider mite resistance and the rhizosphere microbial community", "description": "<p>Entomopathogenic fungi have been well exploited as biocontrol agents that can kill insects through direct contact. However, recent research has shown that they can also play an important role as plant endophytes, stimulating plant growth, and indirectly suppressing pest populations. In this study, we examined the indirect, plant-mediated, effects of a strain of entomopathogenic fungus, Metarhizium brunneum on plant growth and population growth of two-spotted spider mites (Tetranychus urticae) in tomato, using different inoculation methods (seed treatment, soil drenching and a combination of both). Furthermore, we investigated changes in tomato leaf metabolites (sugars and phenolics), and rhizosphere microbial communities in response to M. brunneum inoculation and spider mite feeding. A significant reduction in spider mite population growth was observed in response to M. brunneum inoculation. The reduction was strongest when the inoculum was supplied both as seed treatment and soil drench. This combination treatment also yielded the highest shoot and root biomass in both spider mite-infested and non-infested plants, while spider mite infestation increased shoot but reduced root biomass. Fungal treatments did not consistently affect leaf chlorogenic acid and rutin concentrations, but M. brunneum inoculation via a combination of seed treatment and soil drenching reinforced chlorogenic acid (CGA) induction in response to spider mites and under these conditions the strongest spider mite resistance was observed. However, it is unclear whether the M. brunneum-induced increase in CGA contributed to the observed spider mite resistance, as no general association between CGA levels and spider mite resistance was observed. Spider mite infestation resulted in up to two-fold increase in leaf sucrose concentrations and a three to five-fold increase in glucose and fructose concentrations, but these concentrations were not affected by fungal inoculation. Metarhizium, especially when applied as soil drench, impacted the fungal community composition but not the bacterial community composition which was only affected by the presence of spider mites. Our results suggest that in addition to directly killing spider mites, M. brunneum can indirectly suppress spider mite populations on tomato, although the underlying mechanism has not yet been resolved, and can also affect the composition of the soil microbial community.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "Metarhizium", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "spider mites", "entomopathogenic fungi", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "metabolites", "QR1-502", "rhizosphere microbial communities"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1197770"}, {"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.2023.1197770", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2023.1197770", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1197770"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-05-24T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/biom12050699", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-05-13", "title": "Using Vertebrate Stem and Progenitor Cells for Cellular Agriculture, State-of-the-Art, Challenges, and Future Perspectives", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Global food systems are under significant pressure to provide enough food, particularly protein-rich foods whose demand is on the rise in times of crisis and inflation, as presently existing due to post-COVID-19 pandemic effects and ongoing conflict in Ukraine and resulting in looming food insecurity, according to FAO. Cultivated meat (CM) and cultivated seafood (CS) are protein-rich alternatives for traditional meat and fish that are obtained via cellular agriculture (CA) i.e., tissue engineering for food applications. Stem and progenitor cells are the building blocks and starting point for any CA bioprocess. This review presents CA-relevant vertebrate cell types and procedures needed for their myogenic and adipogenic differentiation since muscle and fat tissue are the primary target tissues for CM/CS production. The review also describes existing challenges, such as a need for immortalized cell lines, or physical and biochemical parameters needed for enhanced meat/fat culture efficiency and ways to address them.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "cellular agriculture; stem cells; progenitor cells; tissue engineering; cultured meat; cultured seafood", "0303 health sciences", "Meat", "Stem Cells", "Fishes", "COVID-19", "Agriculture", "progenitor cells", "cultured seafood", "Review", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "03 medical and health sciences", "stem cells", "tissue engineering", "cultured meat", "cellular agriculture", "Animals", "Humans", "Pandemics"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/biom12050699"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Biomolecules", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/biom12050699", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/biom12050699", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/biom12050699"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-05-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/metabo11070438", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:28Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-07-05", "title": "Metabolomic Approaches to Studying the Response to Drought Stress in Corn (Zea mays) Cobs", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Metabolomics is a technique that allows for the evaluation of the entire extractable chemical profile of a plant, for example, using high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) and can be used to evaluate plant stress responses, such as those due to drought. Metabolomic analysis is dependent upon the efficiency of the extraction protocol. Currently, there are two common extraction procedures widely used in metabolomic experiments, those that extract from plant tissue processed in liquid nitrogen or extraction from lyophilised plant tissues. Here, we evaluated the two using non-targeted metabolomics to show that lyophilisation can stabilise the maize (Zea mays) extractable metabolome, increasing throughput and efficiency of extraction as compared to the more traditional processing in liquid nitrogen. Then, we applied the lyophilisation approach to explore the effect of drought upon the maize metabolome in a non-targeted HRMS metabolomics approach. Metabolomics revealed differences in the mature maize metabolome having undergone three drought conditions imposed at two critical development stages (three-leaf stage and grain-fill stage); moreover, this difference was observed across two tissue types (kernel and inner cob/pith). It was shown that under ideal conditions, the biochemical make-up of the tissue types is different. However, under stress conditions, the stress response dominates the metabolic profile. Drought-related metabolites known from other plant systems have been identified and metabolomics has revealed potential novel drought-stress indicators in our maize system.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "abiotic stress", "1312", "2712", "1303", "15. Life on land", "maize", "metabolomics", "LC\u2013MS", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "Article", "6. Clean water", "03 medical and health sciences", "climate change", "maize; metabolomics; LC\u2013MS; high-resolution mass spectrometry; abiotic stress; climate change", "high-resolution mass spectrometry"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/175862/1/metabolites_11_00438.pdf"}, {"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/11/7/438/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo11070438"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Metabolites", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/metabo11070438", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/metabo11070438", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/metabo11070438"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-07-03T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/metabo15020097", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:28Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-02-05", "title": "Metabolomic-Based Assessment of Earthworm (Eisenia fetida) Exposure to Different Petroleum Fractions in Soils", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Background/Objectives: Petroleum contamination in soil exerts toxic effects on earthworms (Eisenia fetida) through non-polar narcotic mechanisms. However, the specific toxicities of individual petroleum components remain insufficiently understood. Methods: This study investigates the effects of four petroleum components\u2014saturated hydrocarbons, aromatic hydrocarbons, resins, and asphaltenes\u2014on earthworms in artificially contaminated soil, utilizing a combination of biochemical biomarker analysis and metabolomics to uncover the underlying molecular mechanisms. Results: The results revealed that aromatic hydrocarbons are the most toxic fraction, with EC50 concentrations significantly lower than those of other petroleum fractions. All tested fractions triggered notable metabolic disturbances and immune responses in earthworms after 7 days of exposure, as evidenced by significant changes in metabolite abundance within critical pathways such as arginine synthesis, a-linolenic acid metabolism, and the pentose phosphate pathway. According to the KEGG pathway analysis, saturated hydrocarbon fractions induced marked changes in glycerophospholipid metabolism, and arginine and proline metabolism pathways, contributing to the stabilization of the protein structure and membrane integrity. Aromatic hydrocarbon fractions disrupted the arachidonic acid metabolic pathway, leading to increased myotube production and enhanced immune defense mechanisms. The TCA cycle and riboflavin metabolic pathway were significantly altered during exposure to the colloidal fraction, affecting energy production and cellular respiration. The asphaltene fraction significantly impacted glycolysis, accelerating energy cycling to meet stress-induced increases in energy demands. Conclusions: Aromatic hydrocarbons accounted for the highest level of toxicity among the four components in petroleum-contaminated soils. However, the contributions of other fractions to overall toxicity should not be ignored, as each fraction uniquely affects key metabolic pathways and biological functions. These findings emphasize the importance of monitoring metabolic perturbations caused by petroleum components in non-target organisms such as earthworms. They also reveal the specificity of the toxic metabolic effects of different petroleum components on earthworms.</p></article>", "keywords": ["hydrocarbon series of petroleum", "ecotoxicity", "assessment", "earthworms", "metabolism", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "Article", "soil"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Meiyu Liu, Mutian Wang, Xiaowen Fu, Fanyong Song, Fangyuan Zhou, Tianyuan Li, Jianing Wang,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo15020097"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Metabolites", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/metabo15020097", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/metabo15020097", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/metabo15020097"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-02-05T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microplastics2010001", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:23:30Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-12-27", "title": "Microplastics: A review of policies and responses", "description": "<p>Although (micro)plastic contamination is a worldwide concern, most scientific literature only restates that issue rather than presenting strategies to cope with it. This critical review assembles the current knowledge on policies and responses to tackle plastic pollution, including peer-reviewed scientific literature, gray literature and relevant reports to provide: (1) a timeline of policies directly or indirectly addressing microplastics; (2) the most up-to-date upstream responses to prevent microplastics pollution, such as circular economy, behavioral change, development of bio-based polymers and market-based instruments as well as source-specific strategies, focusing on the clothing industry, tire and road wear particles, antifouling paints and recreational activities; (3) a set of downstream responses tackling microplastics, such as waste to energy, degradation, water treatment plants and litter clean-up strategies; and examples of (4) multifaceted responses focused on both mitigating and preventing microplastics pollution, e.g., approaches implemented in fisheries and aquaculture facilities. Preventive strategies and multifaceted responses are postulated as pivotal to handling the exacerbated release of microplastics in the environment, while downstream responses stand out as auxiliary strategies to the chief upstream responses. The information gathered here bridges the knowledge gaps on (micro)plastic pollution by providing a synthesized baseline material for further studies addressing this environmental issue.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "ddc:550", "QH301-705.5", "QD415-436", "Microbiology", "Biochemistry", "01 natural sciences", "downstream responses", "QR1-502", "6. Clean water", "12. Responsible consumption", "mitigation", "prevention", "13. Climate action", "policymaking", "Life Science", "microplastic contamination", "14. Life underwater", "Biology (General)", "upstream responses", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2673-8929/2/1/1/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microplastics2010001"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microplastics", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microplastics2010001", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microplastics2010001", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microplastics2010001"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-12-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5194/we-19-39-2019", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-26T16:24:38Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-06-06", "title": "Unassisted establishment of biological soil crusts on dryland road slopes", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Abstract. Understanding patterns of habitat natural recovery after human-made disturbances is critical for the conservation of ecosystems under high environmental stress, such as drylands. In particular, the unassisted establishment of nonvascular plants such as biological soil crusts or biocrust communities (e.g., soil lichens, mosses and cyanobacteria) in newly formed habitats is not yet fully understood. However, the potential of biocrusts to improve soil structure and function at the early stages of succession and promote ecosystem recovery is enormous. In this study, we evaluated the capacity of lichen biocrusts to spontaneously establish and develop on road slopes in a Mediterranean shrubland. We also compared taxonomic and functional diversity of biocrusts between road slopes and natural habitats in the surroundings. Biocrust richness and cover, species composition, and functional structure were measured in 17 road slopes (nine roadcuts and eight embankments) along a 13\u2009km highway stretch. Topography, soil properties and vascular plant communities of road slopes were also characterized. We used Kruskal\u2013Wallis tests and applied redundancy analysis (RDA) to test the effect of environmental scenario (road slopes vs.\u00a0natural habitat) and other local factors on biocrust features. We found that biocrusts were common in road slopes after \u223c20\u00a0years of construction with no human assistance needed. However, species richness and cover were still lower than in natural remnants. Also, functional structure was quite similar between roadcuts (i.e., after soil excavation) and natural remnants, and topography and soil properties influenced species composition while environmental scenario type and vascular plant cover did not. These findings further support the idea of biocrusts as promising restoration tools in drylands and confirm the critical role of edaphic factors in biocrust establishment and development in land-use change scenarios.                     </p></article>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "QH301-705.5", "Physiology", "Science", "GC1-1581", "QH1-199.5", "Oceanography", "Microbiology", "01 natural sciences", "GF1-900", "QP1-981", "GE1-350", "Biology (General)", "QH540-549.5", "2. Zero hunger", "Ecology", "Q", "Botany", "General. Including nature conservation", " geographical distribution", "15. Life on land", "QR1-502", "Environmental sciences", "QL1-991", "Human ecology. Anthropogeography", "QK1-989", "QH1-278.5", "Natural history (General)", "Zoology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://we.copernicus.org/articles/19/39/2019/we-19-39-2019.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.5194/we-19-39-2019"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Web%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5194/we-19-39-2019", "name": "item", "description": "10.5194/we-19-39-2019", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5194/we-19-39-2019"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-06-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "20.500.11850/667312", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:29:16Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-03-25", "title": "Priorities, opportunities, and challenges for integrating microorganisms into Earth system models for climate change prediction", "description": "ABSTRACT                                     <p>Climate change jeopardizes human health, global biodiversity, and sustainability of the biosphere. To make reliable predictions about climate change, scientists use Earth system models (ESMs) that integrate physical, chemical, and biological processes occurring on land, the oceans, and the atmosphere. Although critical for catalyzing coupled biogeochemical processes, microorganisms have traditionally been left out of ESMs. Here, we generate a \uffe2\uff80\uff9ctop 10\uffe2\uff80\uff9d list of priorities, opportunities, and challenges for the explicit integration of microorganisms into ESMs. We discuss the need for coarse-graining microbial information into functionally relevant categories, as well as the capacity for microorganisms to rapidly evolve in response to climate-change drivers. Microbiologists are uniquely positioned to collect novel and valuable information necessary for next-generation ESMs, but this requires data harmonization and transdisciplinary collaboration to effectively guide adaptation strategies and mitigation policy.</p>", "keywords": ["Naturgeografi", "Earth", " Planet", "Climate Change", "Microbiology", "traits", "biogeochemistry", "Humans", "Ecosystem", "Biomedical and Clinical Sciences", "Bacteria", "biogeochemistry; modeling; traits; climate change", "modeling", "Opinion/Hypothesis", "Biodiversity", "Biological Sciences", "Medical microbiology", "Models", " Theoretical", "15. Life on land", "QR1-502", "6. Clean water", "Climate Science", "3. Good health", "Climate Action", "climate change", "Physical Geography", "Medical Microbiology", "13. Climate action", "Biochemistry and cell biology", "Biochemistry and Cell Biology", "Generic health relevance", "Klimatvetenskap"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/mbio.00455-24"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/20.500.11850/667312"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/mBio", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "20.500.11850/667312", "name": "item", "description": "20.500.11850/667312", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/20.500.11850/667312"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-05-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "20.500.14243/459134", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:29:20Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-09-19", "title": "Bacteriophages limitedly contribute to the antimicrobial resistome of microbial communities in wastewater treatment plants", "description": "ABSTRACT           <p>             Bacteriophages are known as players in the transmission of antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) by horizontal gene transfer. In this study, we characterized the bacteriophage community and the associated ARGs to estimate the potential for phages to spread ARGs in aquatic ecosystems analyzing the intra- and extracellular DNA isolated from two wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) by shotgun metagenomics. We compared the phage antimicrobial resistome with the bacterial resistome and investigated the effect of the final disinfection treatment on the phage community and its resistome. Phage community was mainly composed by             Siphoviridae             and other members of the order             Caudovirales             . The final disinfection only marginally affected the composition of the phage community, and it was not possible to measure its effect on the antimicrobial resistome. Indeed, only three phage metagenome-assembled genomes (pMAGs) annotated as             Siphoviridae             ,             Padoviridae             , and             Myoviridae             were positive for putative ARGs. Among the detected ARGs, i.e.,             dfr             B6,             rpo             B mutants, and EF-Tu mutants, the first one was not annotated in the bacterial MAGs. Overall, these results demonstrate that bacteriophages limitedly contribute to the whole antimicrobial resistome. However, in order to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the antimicrobial resistome within a microbial community, the role of bacteriophages needs to be investigated.           </p>                        IMPORTANCE             <p>WWTPs are considered hotspots for the spread of ARGs by horizontal gene transfer. In this study, we evaluated the phage composition and the associated antimicrobial resistome by shotgun metagenomics of samples collected before and after the final disinfection treatment. Only a few bacteriophages carried ARGs. However, since one of the detected genes was not found in the bacterial metagenome-assembled genomes, it is necessary to investigate the phage community in order to gain a comprehensive overview of the antimicrobial resistome. This investigation could help assess the potential threats to human health.</p>", "keywords": ["metagenomics", "bacteriophages", "11. Sustainability", "Bacteriophages", "metagenomic assembled genomes", "antimicrobial resistance", "antimicrobial resistome", "wastewater treatment plants", "Microbiology", "6. Clean water", "QR1-502", "12. Responsible consumption", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/spectrum.01101-23"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/20.500.14243/459134"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microbiology%20Spectrum", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "20.500.14243/459134", "name": "item", "description": "20.500.14243/459134", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/20.500.14243/459134"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-10-17T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "2948108503", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:29:54Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-06-06", "title": "Unassisted establishment of biological soil crusts on dryland road slopes", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Abstract. Understanding patterns of habitat natural recovery after human-made disturbances is critical for the conservation of ecosystems under high environmental stress, such as drylands. In particular, the unassisted establishment of nonvascular plants such as biological soil crusts or biocrust communities (e.g., soil lichens, mosses and cyanobacteria) in newly formed habitats is not yet fully understood. However, the potential of biocrusts to improve soil structure and function at the early stages of succession and promote ecosystem recovery is enormous. In this study, we evaluated the capacity of lichen biocrusts to spontaneously establish and develop on road slopes in a Mediterranean shrubland. We also compared taxonomic and functional diversity of biocrusts between road slopes and natural habitats in the surroundings. Biocrust richness and cover, species composition, and functional structure were measured in 17 road slopes (nine roadcuts and eight embankments) along a 13\u2009km highway stretch. Topography, soil properties and vascular plant communities of road slopes were also characterized. We used Kruskal\u2013Wallis tests and applied redundancy analysis (RDA) to test the effect of environmental scenario (road slopes vs.\u00a0natural habitat) and other local factors on biocrust features. We found that biocrusts were common in road slopes after \u223c20\u00a0years of construction with no human assistance needed. However, species richness and cover were still lower than in natural remnants. Also, functional structure was quite similar between roadcuts (i.e., after soil excavation) and natural remnants, and topography and soil properties influenced species composition while environmental scenario type and vascular plant cover did not. These findings further support the idea of biocrusts as promising restoration tools in drylands and confirm the critical role of edaphic factors in biocrust establishment and development in land-use change scenarios.                     </p></article>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "QH301-705.5", "Physiology", "Science", "GC1-1581", "QH1-199.5", "Oceanography", "Microbiology", "01 natural sciences", "GF1-900", "QP1-981", "GE1-350", "Biology (General)", "QH540-549.5", "2. Zero hunger", "Ecology", "Q", "Botany", "General. Including nature conservation", " geographical distribution", "15. Life on land", "QR1-502", "Environmental sciences", "QL1-991", "13. Climate action", "Human ecology. Anthropogeography", "QK1-989", "QH1-278.5", "Natural history (General)", "Zoology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://we.copernicus.org/articles/19/39/2019/we-19-39-2019.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/2948108503"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Web%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "2948108503", "name": "item", "description": "2948108503", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/2948108503"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-06-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "3087201685", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:30:10Z", "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/3087201685"}, {"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": "3087201685", "name": "item", "description": "3087201685", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/3087201685"}, {"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": "10451/51022", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-26T16:28:28Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-10-10", "title": "Nitric Oxide Accumulation: The Evolutionary Trigger for Phytopathogenesis", "description": "Many publications highlight the importance of nitric oxide (NO) in plant-bacteria interactions, either in the promotion of health and plant growth or in pathogenesis. However, the role of NO in the signaling between bacteria and plants and in the fate of their interaction, as well as the reconstruction of their interactive evolution, remains largely unknown. Despite the complexity of the evolution of life on Earth, we explore the hypothesis that denitrification and aerobic respiration were responsible for local NO accumulation, which triggered primordial antagonistic biotic interactions, namely the first phytopathogenic interactions. N-oxides, including NO, could globally accumulate via lightning synthesis in the early anoxic ocean and constitute pools for the evolution of denitrification, considered an early step of the biological nitrogen cycle. Interestingly, a common evolution may be proposed for components of denitrification and aerobic respiration pathways, namely for NO and oxygen reductases, a theory compatible with the presence of low amounts of oxygen before the great oxygenation event (GOE), which was generated by Cyanobacteria. During GOE, the increase in oxygen caused the decrease of Earth's temperature and the consequent increase of oxygen dissolution and availability, making aerobic respiration an increasingly dominant trait of the expanding mesophilic lifestyle. Horizontal gene transfer was certainly important in the joint expansion of mesophily and aerobic respiration. First denitrification steps lead to NO formation through nitrite reductase activity, and NO may further accumulate when oxygen binds NO reductase, resulting in denitrification blockage. The consequent transient NO surplus in an oxic niche could have been a key factor for a successful outcome of an early denitrifying prokaryote able to scavenge oxygen by NO/oxygen reductase or by an independent heterotrophic aerobic respiration pathway. In fact, NO surplus could result in toxicity causing 'the first disease' in oxygen-producing Cyanobacteria. We inspected in bacteria the presence of sequences similar to the NO-producing nitrite reductase nirS gene of Thermus thermophilus, an extreme thermophilic aerobe of the Thermus/Deinococcus group, which constitutes an ancient lineage related to Cyanobacteria. In silico analysis revealed the relationship between the presence of nirS genes and phytopathogenicity in Gram-negative bacteria.", "keywords": ["aerobic respiration", "0301 basic medicine", "denitrification", "Thermus thermophilus", "nitrite reductase NirS", "Horizontal gene transfer", "Denitrific", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "Nitrite reductase NirS", "Ationerobic respiration", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. 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