Microbes in porous environments: from active interactions to emergent feedback

C Jin, A Sengupta - Biophysical Reviews, 2024 - Springer
Microbes thrive in diverse porous environments—from soil and riverbeds to human lungs
and cancer tissues—spanning multiple scales and conditions. Short-to long-term …

Improving crop salt tolerance through soil legacy effects

Y Ma, C Zheng, Y Bo, C Song, F Zhu - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Soil salinization poses a critical problem, adversely affecting plant development and
sustainable agriculture. Plants can produce soil legacy effects through interactions with the …

Screening, characterization and optimization for synergistic interaction of potential dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane degrading fungi isolated from agro-industrial …

G Ebsa, B Gizaw, T Alemu - Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, 2024 - Elsevier
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) is a recalcitrant synthetic chemical that threatens the
environment. Despite being banned in most industrialized nations, DDT is still used as a …

Roots of synthetic ecology: microbes that foster plant resilience in the changing climate

E Kozaeva, AA Eida, EF Gunady, JL Dangl… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
HighlightsInfluences of abiotic stresses on assembly and function of rhizo-microbiomeHow
ecology shapes plant and microbial stress resilienceExamples in which microbial abiotic …

Intrinsic microbial temperature sensitivity and soil organic carbon decomposition in response to climate change

S Li, M Delgado‐Baquerizo, J Ding, H Hu… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Soil microbes are essential for regulating carbon stocks under climate change. However, the
uncertainty surrounding how microbial temperature responses control carbon losses under …

Natural plant disease suppressiveness in soils extends to insect pest control

N Harmsen, P Vesga, G Glauser, F Klötzli, CM Heiman… - Microbiome, 2024 - Springer
Background Since the 1980s, soils in a 22-km2 area near Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland
have been recognized for their innate ability to suppress the black root rot plant disease …

RNA-guided genome engineering: paradigm shift towards transposons

CW Chang, VA Truong, NN Pham, YC Hu - Trends in Biotechnology, 2024 - cell.com
CRISPR-Cas systems revolutionized the genome engineering field but need to induce
double-strand breaks (DSBs) and may be difficult to deliver due to their large protein size …

Omics approaches in understanding the benefits of plant-microbe interactions

A Jain, S Sarsaiya, R Singh, Q Gong, Q Wu… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Plant-microbe interactions are pivotal for ecosystem dynamics and sustainable agriculture,
and are influenced by various factors, such as host characteristics, environmental …

New insight into bacterial communities of chicken manure composting under increased carbon to nitrogen ratios: Spatial heterogeneity in diversity, networks, and …

X Hu, Y Jing, N Fu, Y Wang, D Qin, X Guo… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ammonia is emitted from compost piles with inherent spatial heterogeneity, while adjusting
carbon to nitrogen (C/N) ratios can mitigate ammonia emissions. However, the role of spatial …

Insight into farming native microbiome by bioinoculant in soil-plant system

Z Wang, X Fu, EE Kuramae - Microbiological Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Applying beneficial microorganisms (BM) as bioinoculants presents a promising soil-
amendment strategy while impacting the native microbiome, which jointly alters soil-plant …