Rhizosheath microbial community assembly of sympatric desert speargrasses is independent of the plant host

R Marasco, MJ Mosqueira, M Fusi, JB Ramond… - Microbiome, 2018 - Springer
Background The rhizosheath-root system is an adaptive trait of sandy-desert speargrasses
in response to unfavourable moisture and nutritional conditions. Under the deserts' …

The ecology of subaerial biofilms in dry and inhospitable terrestrial environments

F Villa, F Cappitelli - Microorganisms, 2019 - mdpi.com
The ecological relationship between minerals and microorganisms arguably represents one
of the most important associations in dry terrestrial environments, since it strongly influences …

Potential advantage of rhizosheath microbiome, in contrast to rhizosphere microbiome, to improve drought tolerance in crops

H Etesami - Rhizosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Drought stress–single or in combination with abiotic and biotic stresses–is a major constraint
on agricultural production and threatens food security worldwide. This has further led to the …

Effects of vegetation on bacterial communities, carbon and nitrogen in dryland soil surfaces: implications for shrub encroachment in the southwest Kalahari

S Lan, AD Thomas, S Tooth, L Wu, DR Elliott - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Shrub encroachment is occurring in many of the world's drylands, but its impacts on
ecosystem structure and function are still poorly understood. In particular, it remains unclear …

Diverse bacteria affiliated with the genera Microvirga, Phyllobacterium, and Bradyrhizobium nodulate Lupinus micranthus growing in soils of Northern Tunisia

A Msaddak, D Durán, M Rejili, M Mars… - Applied and …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
The genetic diversity of bacterial populations nodulating Lupinus micranthus in five
geographical sites from northern Tunisia was examined. Phylogenetic analyses of 50 …

Microbial Ecology of Hot Desert Soils

JB Ramond, DA Cowan - Microbiology of Hot Deserts, 2022 - Springer
Deserts are one of the major terrestrial biomes on Earth and, with the impacts of global
climate change, are expanding. Given the fact that over two billion humans currently live in …

Microvirga massiliensis sp. nov., the human commensal with the largest genome

A Caputo, JC Lagier, S Azza, C Robert… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Microvirga massiliensis sp. nov. strain JC 119T is a bacteria isolated in Marseille from a
stool sample collected in Senegal. The 16S rRNA (JF 824802) of M. massiliensis JC 119T …

Expression and characterization of a novel trehalase from Microvirga sp. strain MC18

C Dong, Q Fan, X Li, Y Huang, J Han, X Fang… - Protein Expression and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Trehalase catalyzes the hydrolysis of trehalose into two glucose molecules and is present in
nearly all tissues in various forms. In this study, a putative bacterial trehalase gene …

The Enhanced Pb (II) Precipitation on Montmorillonite-based Artificial Biocrust

K Zhou, Y Bi, Z Cui, Z Zijia, X Ling, S Shaoxian… - 2024 - authorea.com
Biocrusts, as the dominant green strips in arid continents, potentially sever as a useful tool
for immobilizing Pb in contaminated land under extreme constraints such as water resource …

腾格里沙漠沙坡头地区土壤微生物多样性分析

**靖宇, 张琇, 孙敏, 张燕灵 - 生态与农村环境学报, 2016 - ere.ac.cn
为了揭示沙坡头沙漠固沙区与流沙区不同植物根际微生物群落结构的组成, 丰度和多样性对沙漠
极端环境的响应, 采用DNA 提取试剂盒提取土壤总DNA, 对细菌群落编码16S rRNA 的基因(16S …