The prevalence of multidrug‐resistant microbial pathogens due to the continued misuse and
overuse of antibiotics in agriculture and medicine is raising the prospect of a return to the …

The Atacama Desert of northern Chile is the oldest and most arid nonpolar environment on
Earth. It is a coastal desert covering approximately 180,000 km2, and together with the …

In this study, the evaluation of soil characteristics was coupled with a pyrosequencing
analysis of the V2-V3 16S rRNA gene region in order to investigate the bacterial community …

Background To convert deserts into arable, green landscapes is a global vision, and desert
farming is a strong growing area of agriculture world-wide. However, its effect on diversity of …

Microbial growth under extreme conditions is often slow. This is partly because large
amounts of energy are diverted into cellular mechanisms that allow survival under hostile …

The Atacama Desert is by far the driest and oldest desert on Earth, showing a unique
combination of environmental extremes (extreme dryness, the highest UV radiation levels on …

In an era of rapid climate change and expansion of desertification, the extremely harsh
conditions of drylands are a true challenge for microbial life. Under drought conditions …

The Atacama Desert, located in northern Chile, is the driest and oldest Desert on Earth.
Research aimed at the understanding of this unique habitat and its diverse microbial …

This article reviews current knowledge on microbial communities inhabiting endolithic
habitats in the arid and hyper-arid regions of our planet. In these extremely dry …

The Atacama Desert, northern Chile, is one of the driest deserts on Earth and, as such, a
natural laboratory to explore the limits of life and the strategies evolved by microorganisms …