Suppressive compost provides an environment in which plant disease development is
reduced, even in the presence of a pathogen and a susceptible host. Despite the numerous …

Metagenomics provides a means of assessing the total genetic pool of all the microbes in a
particular environment, in a culture-independent manner. It has revealed unprecedented …

Background Recovering individual genomes from metagenomic datasets allows access to
uncultivated microbial populations that may have important roles in natural and engineered …

Carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) are very important to the biotech industry,
particularly the emerging biofuel industry because CAZymes are responsible for the …

Animals living in social communities typically harbor a characteristic gut microbiota
important for nutrition and pathogen defense. Accordingly, in the gut of the honey bee, Apis …

Chickens are major source of food and protein worldwide. Feed conversion and the health
of chickens relies on the largely unexplored complex microbial community that inhabits the …

Background Estuaries are among the most productive habitats on the planet. Bacteria in
estuary sediments control the turnover of organic carbon and the cycling of nitrogen and …

Biological conversion of cellulosic biomass to fuels and chemicals offers the high yields to
products vital to economic success and the potential for very low costs. Enzymatic hydrolysis …

Abstract The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico resulted in a deep-sea
hydrocarbon plume that caused a shift in the indigenous microbial community composition …

Background Compost habitats sustain a vast ensemble of microbes specializing in the
degradation of lignocellulosic plant materials and are thus important both for their roles in …