Soil properties and geomorphic processes influence vegetation composition, structure, and function in the Cerrado Domain

D Lira-Martins, DL Nascimento, A Abrahão… - Plant and Soil, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background The Cerrado of central Brazil—the world's largest Neotropical savanna–
is comprised of a mosaic of highly heterogeneous vegetation growing on an extremely …

A brief history of research in campo rupestre: identifying research priorities and revisiting the geographical distribution of an ancient, widespread Neotropical biome

DTB Miola, VDV Ramos… - Biological Journal of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Few ecologists and evolutionary biologists are familiar with the ecology and evolution of the
campo rupestre, an ancient azonal peinobiome characterized by a fire-prone, nutrient …

[HTML][HTML] From microbiome to traits: designing synthetic microbial communities for improved crop resiliency

RSC De Souza, JSL Armanhi, P Arruda - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Plants teem with microorganisms, whose tremendous diversity and role in plant–microbe
interactions are being increasingly explored. Microbial communities create a functional bond …

Plant microbiomes harbor potential to promote nutrient turnover in impoverished substrates of a Brazilian biodiversity hotspot

AP Camargo, RSC de Souza, J Jose… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The substrates of the Brazilian campos rupestre s, a grassland ecosystem, have extremely
low concentrations of phosphorus and nitrogen, imposing restrictions to plant growth …

[HTML][HTML] Designing a synthetic microbial community through genome metabolic modeling to enhance plant–microbe interaction

OS Gonçalves, CJ Creevey, MF Santana - Environmental microbiome, 2023 - Springer
Background Manipulating the rhizosphere microbial community through beneficial
microorganism inoculation has gained interest in improving crop productivity and stress …

Variation in genomic traits of microbial communities among ecosystems

PF Chuckran, BA Hungate, E Schwartz… - FEMS …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Free-living bacteria in nutrient limited environments often exhibit traits which may reduce the
cost of reproduction, such as smaller genome size, low GC content and fewer sigma (σ) …

Soil structure, nutrient status and water holding capacity shape Uruguayan grassland prokaryotic communities

S Garaycochea, H Romero, E Beyhaut… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Soil microbial communities play critical roles in maintaining natural ecosystems such as the
Campos biome grasslands of southern South America. These grasslands are characterized …

Recent divergence in functional traits affects rates of speciation in the Neotropical Velloziaceae (Pandanales)

P De Freitas Larocca… - Botanical Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The resurrection plant family Velloziaceae are an iconic element in the Brazilian campos
rupestres, where Barbacenia and Vellozia have undergone episodes of explosive species …

Plant-associated microbiomes promote nutrient turnover in impoverished substrates of a biodiversity hotspot

AP Camargo, RS Correa de Souza, J Jose, IR Gerhardt… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
The substrates of the Brazilian campos rupestre s have extremely low concentrations of key
nutrients, mainly phosphorus, imposing severe restrictions to plant growth. Regardless, this …

[PDF][PDF] Genomics applied to climate change: Biotechnology for digital agriculture.

JECT YASSITEPE, RA Dante, IR Gerhardt… - 2023 - alice.cnptia.embrapa.br
The most conspicuous manifestations of climate change are higher global atmospheric
temperatures, which are already observed in several regions of the world. The projected …