Background The erratic alterations in climate being experienced in agriculture, such as
extended periods of drought or heavy rainfalls, are bringing increasing concerns about …

Salt marshes are highly dynamic, biologically diverse ecosystems with a broad range of
ecological functions. We investigated the endophytic bacterial community of surface …

Much genetic diversity within a bacterial community is likely obscured by microdiversity
within operational taxonomic units (OTUs) defined by 16S rRNA gene sequences. However …

Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition represents an important input of N into natural
ecosystems such as semiarid shrublands of Southern California, which can receive up to 45 …

Global change experiments often observe shifts in bacterial community composition based
on 16S rRNA gene sequences. However, this genetic region can mask a large amount of …

Bacteria and fungi were isolated from eight different soil samples from different regions in
Kazakhstan contaminated with oil or salt or aromatic compounds. For the isolation of the …

For free-living bacteria and archaea, the equivalent of the biological species concept does
not exist, creating several obstacles to the study of the processes contributing to microbial …

A multiphasic approach was used to decipher the phenotypic features, genetic diversity, and
phylogenetic position of 46 Curtobacterium spp. strains isolated from dry beans and other …

This research aims to isolate and identify Zn-and Cd-tolerant endophytic bacteria from
Murdannia spectabilis, identify their properties with and without Zn and Cd stress, and to …

Microbial ecology has been transformed by the advent of high-throughput marker gene and
metagenomic sequencing methods. These tools provide expansive descriptions of microbial …