Background Soil salinization threatens food security and ecosystem health, and is one of the
important drivers to the degradation of many ecosystems around the world. Soil …

The ocean is home to a diverse and metabolically versatile microbial community that
performs the complex biochemical transformations that drive the nitrogen cycle, including …

A new strategy that can effectively increase the nitrogen reduction reaction performance of
catalysts is proposed and verified by tuning the coordination number of metal atoms. It is …

Material-enhanced heterogonous peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation on emerging organic
pollutant degradation has attracted intensive attention, and a challenge is the electron …

Microbial communities are responsible for biological wastewater treatment, but our
knowledge of their diversity and function is still poor. Here, we sequence more than 5 million …

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 …

Nitric oxide (NO) is an important signaling molecule that is involved in a wide range of
physiological and pathological events in biology. Metal coordination chemistry, especially …

Microbial nitrite oxidation is the primary pathway that generates nitrate in wastewater
treatment systems and can be performed by a variety of microbes: namely, nitrite-oxidizing …

Although there is now an extensive understanding of the diversity of microbial life on earth
through culture-independent metagenomic DNA sequence analyses, the isolation and …

Integrons are flexible gene-exchanging platforms that contain multiple cassettes encoding
accessory genes whose order is shuffled by a specific integrase. Integrons embedded within …