Diversity of plant growth and soil health supporting bacteria

K Tilak, N Ranganayaki, KK Pal, R De, AK Saxena… - Current science, 2005 - JSTOR
The global necessity to increase agricultural production from a steadily decreasing and
degrading land resource base has placed considerable strain on the fragile agro …

Environmental controls on denitrifying communities and denitrification rates: insights from molecular methods

MD Wallenstein, DD Myrold, M Firestone… - Ecological …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The advent of molecular techniques has improved our understanding of the microbial
communities responsible for denitrification and is beginning to address their role in …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing and evaluating metagenome assembly tools from a microbiologist's perspective-not only size matters!

J Vollmers, S Wiegand, AK Kaster - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
With the constant improvement in cost-efficiency and quality of Next Generation Sequencing
technologies, shotgun-sequencing approaches-such as metagenomics-have nowadays …

Bacteria rather than Archaea dominate microbial ammonia oxidation in an agricultural soil

Z Jia, R Conrad - Environmental microbiology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Agricultural ecosystems annually receive approximately 25% of the global nitrogen input,
much of which is oxidized at least once by ammonia‐oxidizing prokaryotes to complete the …

Root microbiome relates to plant host evolution in maize and other P oaceae

ML Bouffaud, MA Poirier, D Muller… - Environmental …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Prokaryote–eukaryote interactions are primordial, but host selection of its bacterial
community remains poorly understood. Because eukaryote evolution affects numerous traits …

Ammonia oxidation coupled to CO2 fixation by archaea and bacteria in an agricultural soil

J Pratscher, MG Dumont… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Ammonia oxidation is an essential part of the global nitrogen cycling and was long thought
to be driven only by bacteria. Recent findings expanded this pathway also to the archaea …

Comparative day/night metatranscriptomic analysis of microbial communities in the North Pacific subtropical gyre

RS Poretsky, I Hewson, S Sun, AE Allen… - Environmental …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Metatranscriptomic analyses of microbial assemblages (< 5 μm) from surface water at the
Hawaiian Ocean Time‐Series (HOT) revealed community‐wide metabolic activities and …

[HTML][HTML] Putative nitrogen-fixing bacteria associated with the rhizosphere and root endosphere of wheat plants grown in an andisol from southern Chile

JI Rilling, JJ Acuña, MJ Sadowsky… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Acidic ash derived volcanic soils (Andisols) support 50% of cereal production in Chile.
Nitrogen (N) is essential for cereal crops and commonly added as urea with consequent …

Abundance and activity of uncultured methanotrophic bacteria involved in the consumption of atmospheric methane in two forest soils

S Kolb, C Knief, PF Dunfield… - Environmental …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The activity and abundance of methanotrophic bacteria were measured in an acidic and a
neutral forest soil. The soils exhibited high uptake rates (> 30 µg CH4 m− 2 h− 1) of …

Metagenomics approaches in systems microbiology

JM Vieites, ME Guazzaroni, A Beloqui… - FEMS microbiology …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
The world of microorganisms comprises a vast diversity of live organisms, each with its
individual set of genes, cellular components and metabolic reactions that interact within the …