Bioindication has become an indispensable part of water quality monitoring in most
countries of the world, with the presence and abundance of bioindicator taxa, mostly …

The importance of biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) in securing food production for the
growing world population with minimal environmental cost has been increasingly …

The rhizosphere supports the development and activity of a huge and diversified microbial
community, including microorganisms capable to promote plant growth. Among the latter …

Intermittent drainage can substantially reduce methane emission from rice fields, but the
microbial mechanisms remain poorly understood. In the present study, we determined the …

Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and SYBR Green I quantitative real-time
PCR (qPCR) approaches were used to assess respectively the molecular diversity and the …

Research progress of the molecular ecology on microbiological processes in soil nitrogen
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Colonization by foliar fungal endophytes can assist host plants in the acquisition of soil
nutrients, however understanding of the effects of Epichloë endophytes on soil nutrient …

The endophytic bacterial communities of the three most important rice varieties cultivated in
Uruguay were compared by a multiphasic approach. Leaves of mature plants grown in field …

Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) contributed greatly in maintaining the fertility of paddy soils
without the application of chemical fertilizers for thousands of years. However, factors …

Flooding impacts soil microbial communities, but its effect on endophytic communities has
rarely been explored. This work addresses the effect of flooding on the abundance and …