Microbiome engineering is increasingly being employed as a solution to challenges in
health, agriculture, and climate. Often manipulation involves inoculation of new microbes …

Engineering plant microbiomes has the potential to improve plant health in a rapid and
sustainable way. Rapidly changing climates and relatively long timelines for plant breeding …

Microbial communities frequently invade one another as a whole, a phenomenon known as
community coalescence. Despite its potential importance for the assembly, dynamics, and …

While large inputs of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers enable our current rate of crop production
and feed a growing global population, these fertilizers come at a heavy environmental cost …

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

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

Riverbank filtration has gained increasing importance for balancing rising groundwater
demands and securing drinking water supplies. While microbial communities are the pillar of …

In human microbiota, the prevention or promotion of invasions can be crucial to human
health. Invasion outcomes, in turn, are impacted by the composition of resident communities …

Biodegradation holds promise as an effective and sustainable process for the removal of
synthetic chemical pollutants. Nevertheless, rational engineering of biodegradation for …

Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) systems provide effective removal of many water
contaminants including suspended solids, organic matter, pathogens, and numerous trace …