Recent advances in synthetic biology and materials science have given rise to a new form of
materials, namely engineered living materials (ELMs), which are composed of living matter …

The rhizosphere is the central hotspot of water and nutrient uptake by plants,
rhizodeposition, microbial activities, and plant-soil-microbial interactions. The plasticity of …

For microbiome biology to become a more predictive science, we must identify which
descriptive features of microbial communities are reproducible and predictable, which are …

Quantitatively linking the composition and function of microbial communities is a major
aspiration of microbial ecology. Microbial community functions emerge from a complex web …

We study a reference model in theoretical ecology, the disordered Lotka-Volterra model for
ecological communities, in the presence of finite demographic noise. Our theoretical …

Microbiome breeding is a new artificial selection technique that seeks to change the genetic
composition of microbiomes in order to benefit plant or animal hosts. Recent experimental …

Environmental microbiome engineering is emerging as a potential avenue for climate
change mitigation. In this process, microbial inocula are introduced to natural microbial …

The immeasurable complexity at every level of biological organization creates a daunting
task for understanding biological function. Here, we highlight the risks of stripping it away at …

In disease ecology, pathogen transmission among conspecific versus heterospecific hosts is
known to shape pathogen specialization and virulence, but we do not yet know if similar …

Microbial communities, acting as key drivers of ecosystem processes, harbour immense
potential for sustainable agriculture practices. Phosphate-solubilising microorganisms, for …