Into the plastisphere, where only the generalists thrive: early insights in plastisphere microbial community succession

JA Wallbank, G Lear, JM Kingsbury… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The ubiquity of plastic debris in marine environments raises the question, what impacts do
plastics have on our marine microbiota? To investigate this, we applied bacterial 16S rRNA …

Grapevine wood microbiome analysis identifies key fungal pathogens and potential interactions with the bacterial community implicated in grapevine trunk disease …

B Fotios, V Sotirios, P Elena, S Anastasios… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background Grapevine trunk diseases (GTDs) is a disease complex caused by
wood pathogenic fungi belonging to genera like Phaeomoniella, Phaeoacremonium …

Plant secondary metabolite-dependent plant-soil feedbacks can improve crop yield in the field

V Gfeller, J Waelchli, S Pfister, G Deslandes-Hérold… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Plant secondary metabolites that are released into the rhizosphere alter biotic and abiotic
soil properties, which in turn affect the performance of other plants. How this type of plant …

A comparison of six DNA extraction protocols for 16S, ITS and shotgun metagenomic sequencing of microbial communities

JP Shaffer, CS Carpenter, C Martino, RA Salido… - …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Microbial communities contain a broad phylogenetic diversity of organisms; however, the
majority of methods center on describing bacteria and archaea. Fungi are important …

[HTML][HTML] Short-term response of soil bacterial and fungal communities to fire in rotational shifting cultivation, northern Thailand

N Arunrat, C Sansupa, S Sereenonchai, R Hatano - Applied Soil Ecology, 2024 - Elsevier
Soil microbial communities are ubiquitous and essential for the functioning of the soil
system. The use of fire is a common practice in rotational shifting cultivation (RSC) to clear …

Evaluation of pre-treated healthcare wastes during COVID-19 pandemic reveals pathogenic microbiota, antibiotics residues, and antibiotic resistance genes against …

SW Siew, SM Musa, NA Sabri, MFF Asras… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The disposal of healthcare waste without prior elimination of pathogens and hazardous
contaminants has negative effects on the environment and public health. This study aimed to …

Heritable microbiome variation is correlated with source environment in locally adapted maize varieties

X He, D Wang, Y Jiang, M Li, M Delgado-Baquerizo… - Nature Plants, 2024 - nature.com
Beneficial interactions with microorganisms are pivotal for crop performance and resilience.
However, it remains unclear how heritable the microbiome is with respect to the host plant …

Diversity, distribution and ecology of fungal communities present in Antarctic lake sediments uncovered by DNA metabarcoding

LMD de Souza, JM Lirio, SH Coria, FAC Lopes… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
We assessed fungal diversity in sediments obtained from four lakes in the South Shetland
Islands and James Ross Island, Antarctica, using DNA metabarcoding. We detected 218 …

Dadasnake, a Snakemake implementation of DADA2 to process amplicon sequencing data for microbial ecology

C Weißbecker, B Schnabel, A Heintz-Buschart - GigaScience, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Amplicon sequencing of phylogenetic marker genes, eg, 16S, 18S, or ITS
ribosomal RNA sequences, is still the most commonly used method to determine the …

Cottonseed press cake as a potential diet for industrially farmed black soldier fly larvae triggers adaptations of their bacterial and fungal gut microbiota

D Tegtmeier, S Hurka, P Klüber, K Brinkrolf… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens, Diptera: Stratiomyidae) are used for the
bioconversion of organic side products into valuable compounds such as proteins, lipids …