Studying within-species variation has traditionally been limited to culturable bacterial
isolates and low-resolution microbial community fingerprinting. Metagenomic sequencing …

There is an increasing interest in Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, one of the most abundant
bacterial species found in the gut, given its potentially important role in promoting gut health …

A recent paper by Martiny argues that “high proportions” of bacteria in diverse Earth
environments have been cultured. Here we reanalyze a portion of the data in that paper, and …

土壤酶在生态系统中是否作为一个组成成分, 经典生态学没有明确的表述,
但土壤酶在生态系统中具有重要的地位, 它参与了包括土壤生物化学过程在内的自然界物质循环 …

Numerous species of soil bacteria which flourish in the rhizosphere of plants, but which may
grow in, on, or around plant tissues, stimulate plant growth by a plethora of mechanisms …

▪ Abstract Agricultural soils suppressive to soilborne plant pathogens occur worldwide, and
for several of these soils the biological basis of suppressiveness has been described. Two …

Plant rhizosphere is the soil nearest to the plant root system where roots release large
quantity of metabolites from living root hairs or fibrous root systems. These metabolites act …

The rhizodeposition of plants dramatically influence the surrounding soil and its microflora.
Root exudates have pronounced selective and promoting effects on specific microbial …

Antibiotics play a pivotal role in the management of infectious disease in humans,
companion animals, livestock, and aquaculture operations at a global scale. Antibiotics are …

There is no widely accepted concept of species for prokaryotes, and assignment of isolates
to species is based on measures of phenotypic or genome similarity. The current methods …