Extreme environments: microbiology leading to specialized metabolites

AM Sayed, MHA Hassan, HA Alhadrami… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The prevalence of multidrug‐resistant microbial pathogens due to the continued misuse and
overuse of antibiotics in agriculture and medicine is raising the prospect of a return to the …

Beyond the extremes: Rocks as ultimate refuge for fungi in drylands

C Coleine, JE Stajich, A de Los Ríos, L Selbmann - Mycologia, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In an era of rapid climate change and expansion of desertification, the extremely harsh
conditions of drylands are a true challenge for microbial life. Under drought conditions …

Salinity and bacterial diversity: to what extent does the concentration of salt affect the bacterial community in a saline soil?

L Canfora, G Bacci, F Pinzari, G Lo Papa, C Dazzi… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
In this study, the evaluation of soil characteristics was coupled with a pyrosequencing
analysis of the V2-V3 16S rRNA gene region in order to investigate the bacterial community …

[图书][B] Bacterial biogeochemistry: the ecophysiology of mineral cycling

T Fenchel, H Blackburn, GM King - 2012 - books.google.com
Bacterial Biogeochemistry, Third Edition focuses on bacterial metabolism and its relevance
to the environment, including the decomposition of soil, food chains, nitrogen fixation …

Desert farming benefits from microbial potential in arid soils and promotes diversity and plant health

M Köberl, H Müller, EM Ramadan, G Berg - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background To convert deserts into arable, green landscapes is a global vision, and desert
farming is a strong growing area of agriculture world-wide. However, its effect on diversity of …

The Atacama Desert: technical resources and the growing importance of novel microbial diversity

AT Bull, JA Asenjo, M Goodfellow… - Annual Review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The Atacama Desert of northern Chile is the oldest and most arid nonpolar environment on
Earth. It is a coastal desert covering approximately 180,000 km2, and together with the …

[HTML][HTML] No need for speed: slow development of fungi in extreme environments

C Gostinčar, P Zalar, N Gunde-Cimerman - Fungal Biology Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Microbial growth under extreme conditions is often slow. This is partly because large
amounts of energy are diverted into cellular mechanisms that allow survival under hostile …

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile as an analog model of Mars

A Azua-Bustos, C Gonzalez-Silva… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Atacama Desert is by far the driest and oldest desert on Earth, showing a unique
combination of environmental extremes (extreme dryness, the highest UV radiation levels on …

[HTML][HTML] Life at the dry edge: microorganisms of the Atacama Desert

A Azua-Bustos, C Urrejola, R Vicuña - FEBS letters, 2012 - Elsevier
The Atacama Desert, located in northern Chile, is the driest and oldest Desert on Earth.
Research aimed at the understanding of this unique habitat and its diverse microbial …

Adaptation strategies of endolithic chlorophototrophs to survive the hyperarid and extreme solar radiation environment of the Atacama Desert

J Wierzchos, J DiRuggiero, P Vítek, O Artieda… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The Atacama Desert, northern Chile, is one of the driest deserts on Earth and, as such, a
natural laboratory to explore the limits of life and the strategies evolved by microorganisms …