The function of cells in their native habitat often cannot be reliably predicted from genomic
data or from physiology studies of isolates. Traditional experimental approaches to study the …

Viability and metabolic assays are commonly used as proxies to assess the overall
metabolism of microorganisms. The variety of these assays combined with little information …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) refers to DNA that can be extracted from environmental
samples (such as soil, water, feces, or air) without the prior isolation of any target organism …

Soils are immensely diverse microbial habitats with thousands of co-existing bacterial,
archaeal, and fungal species. Across broad spatial scales, factors such as pH and soil …

Soils sustain an immense diversity of microbes, which, to a large extent, remains
unexplored. A range of novel methods, most of which are based on rRNA and rDNA …

▪ Abstract An increasing interest has emerged with respect to the importance of microbial
diversity in soil habitats. The extent of the diversity of microorganisms in soil is seen to be …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and bacteria can interact synergistically to stimulate plant
growth through a range of mechanisms that include improved nutrient acquisition and …

Bacteria grow and transform elements at different rates, and as yet, quantifying this variation
in the environment is difficult. Determining isotope enrichment with fine taxonomic resolution …

The recognition that most microorganisms in the environment cannot be cultured by
standard methods stimulated the development of metagenomics, which is the genomic …

In the ten years since the publication of Modern Soil Microbiology, the study of soil
microbiology has significantly changed, both in the understanding of the diversity and …