Crop losses from pests threaten global food security and safety. In the last six decades, pest
control using chemical pesticides has resulted in important yield gains per unit area …

Faced with the biodiversity extinction crisis and climate change, alternative approaches to
food production are urgently needed. Decades of chemical-based weed control have …

Nearly all ecosystems host diverse microbiomes that support vital ecosystem processes. At
the same time, these ecosystems and their microbiomes are increasingly altered by human …

Fungi are dominant ecological participants in the forest ecosystems, which play a major role
in recycling organic matter and channeling nutrients across trophic levels. Fungal …

Microbes are found in nearly every habitat and organism on the planet, where they are
critical to host health, fitness, and metabolism. In most organisms, few microbes are inherited …

Microbiome science has provided groundbreaking insights into human and animal health.
Similarly, evolutionary medicine–the incorporation of eco‐evolutionary concepts into …

In the search for biosignatures on Mars, there is an abundance of data from orbiters and
rovers to characterize global and regional habitability, but much less information is available …

Microbial carbon fixation has been proved to play a key role in soil carbon accumulation in
arid desert oasis, but the fixation mechanism remains unclear. To solve it, we used …

Spatiotemporal models that account for heterogeneity within microbial communities rely on
single-cell data for calibration and validation. Such data, commonly collected via microscopy …

Soil microorganisms are key drivers of soil biochemical processes, but the resilience of
microbial communities and their metabolic activity after an extreme environmental change is …