Innovations to culturing the uncultured microbial majority

WH Lewis, G Tahon, P Geesink, DZ Sousa… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite the surge of microbial genome data, experimental testing is important to confirm
inferences about the cell biology, ecological roles and evolution of microorganisms. As the …

Microbial assembly, interaction, functioning, activity and diversification: a review derived from community compositional data

J Liu, Z Meng, X Liu, XH Zhang - Marine Life Science & Technology, 2019 - Springer
Microorganisms play crucial roles in maintaining ecosystem stability. The last two decades
have witnessed an upsurge in studies on marine microbial community composition using …

Microbial resistance and resilience in response to environmental changes under the higher intensity of human activities than global average level

L Huang, J Bai, X Wen, G Zhang, C Zhang… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With the increasing intensity of global human activities, the ecosystem function, which is
supported by the microbial community, will be dramatically changed and impaired. To …

Single cell analyses reveal contrasting life strategies of the two main nitrifiers in the ocean

K Kitzinger, HK Marchant, LA Bristow… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Nitrification, the oxidation of ammonia via nitrite to nitrate, is a key process in marine
nitrogen (N) cycling. Although oceanic ammonia and nitrite oxidation are balanced …

Niche differentiation of comammox Nitrospira and canonical ammonia oxidizers in soil aggregate fractions following 27-year fertilizations

Y Lin, G Ye, W Ding, HW Hu, Y Zheng, J Fan… - Agriculture, ecosystems …, 2020 - Elsevier
Complete ammonia oxidizers (comammox Nitrospira) were recently discovered to be
capable of oxidizing ammonia and nitrite in a single microorganism, which refutes the long …

Inoculation of Escherichia coli enriched the key functional bacteria that intensified cadmium accumulation by halophyte Suaeda salsa in saline soils

T He, ZM Xu, JF Wang, K Zhang, FP Wang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
The enhancement of cadmium (Cd) extraction by plants from contaminated soils associated
with phosphate-solubilizing bacteria (PSB) has been widely reported, but the underlying …

Ammonia‐oxidizing archaea release a suite of organic compounds potentially fueling prokaryotic heterotrophy in the ocean

B Bayer, RL Hansman, MJ Bittner… - Environmental …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ammonia‐oxidizing archaea (AOA) constitute a considerable fraction of microbial biomass
in the global ocean, comprising 20%–40% of the ocean's prokaryotic plankton. However, it …

Improving cadmium accumulation by Solanum nigrum L. via regulating rhizobacterial community and metabolic function with phosphate-solubilizing bacteria …

T He, ZJ Xu, JF Wang, FP Wang, XF Zhou, LL Wang… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil cadmium (Cd) mobilized with phosphate-solubilizing bacteria (PSB), especially for
strains effectively colonized in rhizosphere, is an important pathway for promoting its …

Responses of soil microbiome to steel corrosion

Y Huang, D Xu, L Huang, Y Lou, JB Muhadesi… - npj Biofilms and …, 2021 - nature.com
The process of microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) in soils has received
widespread attention. Herein, long-term outdoor soil burial experiments were conducted to …

Metagenome-assembled genomes reveal unique metabolic adaptations of a basal marine Thaumarchaeota lineage

L Reji, CA Francis - The ISME Journal, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Thaumarchaeota constitute an abundant and ubiquitous phylum of Archaea that play critical
roles in the global nitrogen and carbon cycles. Most well-characterized members of the …