Global population growth poses a threat to food security in an era of increased ecosystem
degradation, climate change, soil erosion, and biodiversity loss. In this context, harnessing …

Potentially beneficial microorganisms have been inoculated into agricultural soils for years.
However, concurrent with sequencing advances and successful manipulation of host …

Plant growth depends on a range of functions provided by their associated rhizosphere
microbiome, including nutrient mineralization, hormone co-regulation and pathogen …

Understanding how the metabolic rates of prokaryotes respond to temperature is
fundamental to our understanding of how ecosystem functioning will be altered by climate …

Community coalescence, the mixing of different communities, is widespread throughout
microbial ecology. Coalescence can result in approximately equal contributions from the …

Understanding the ecological and evolutionary processes determining the outcome of
biological invasions has been the subject of decades of research with most work focusing on …

Determining the drivers underlying ecological succession is essential for predicting
ecosystem functioning in response to human-induced environmental changes. Although …

Autochthonous fungal bioaugmentation (AFB) is considered a reliable bioremediation
approach for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) contamination, but little is known about …

Carbon use efficiency (CUE) is a key characteristic of microbial physiology and underlies
community‐level responses to changing environments. Yet, we currently lack general …

The use of plant biostimulants, also known as bioeffectors (BEs), has attracted increasing
attention as an environmentally friendly strategy for more sustainable crop production. BEs …