Survival strategies of Bacillus spp. in saline soils: Key factors to promote plant growth and health

MF Valencia-Marin, S Chávez-Avila… - Biotechnology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Soil salinity is one of the most important abiotic factors that affects agricultural production
worldwide. Because of saline stress, plants face physiological changes that have negative …

Microbial strategies driving low concentration substrate degradation for sustainable remediation solutions

Q Yin, K He, G Collins, J De Vrieze, G Wu - npj Clean Water, 2024 - nature.com
Microbial metabolism upholds a fundamental role in the sustainability of water ecosystems.
However, how microorganisms surviving in low-concentration substrate water environments …

Life-history strategies of soil microbial communities in an arid ecosystem

Y Chen, JW Neilson, P Kushwaha, RM Maier… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The overwhelming taxonomic diversity and metabolic complexity of microorganisms can be
simplified by a life-history classification; copiotrophs grow faster and rely on resource …

Rapid evolution of mutation rate and spectrum in response to environmental and population-genetic challenges

W Wei, WC Ho, MG Behringer, SF Miller… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Ecological and demographic factors can significantly shape the evolution of microbial
populations both directly and indirectly, as when changes in the effective population size …

Drought impacts on microbial trait distribution and feedback to soil carbon cycling

AA Malik, NJ Bouskill - Functional Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying the impact of drought on microbial processes and its consequences for soil
carbon cycling is hindered by the lack of underlying mechanistic understanding. Therefore …

Cell shape affects bacterial colony growth under physical confinement

M Sreepadmanabh, M Ganesh, P Sanjenbam… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Evidence from homogeneous liquid or flat-plate cultures indicates that biochemical cues are
the primary modes of bacterial interaction with their microenvironment. However, these …

What is microbial dormancy?

MD McDonald, C Owusu-Ansah, JB Ellenbogen… - Trends in …, 2024 - cell.com
Life can be stressful. One way to deal with stress is to simply wait it out. Microbes do this by
entering a state of reduced activity and increased resistance commonly called 'dormancy' …

Mainstream anammox driven by micro-oxygen nitrification and partial denitrification using step-feed for advanced nitrogen removal from municipal wastewater

J Chen, X Zhang, X Zhang, Z Zhu, Y Wu… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study developed a novel integrated nitrification, partial denitrification (PD), and
anammox (INPDA) process in micro-aerobic sequencing batch reactor using step-feed …

Minimal out-of-equilibrium metabolism for synthetic cells: a membrane perspective

E Bailoni, M Partipilo, J Coenradij… - ACS Synthetic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Life-like systems need to maintain a basal metabolism, which includes importing a variety of
building blocks required for macromolecule synthesis, exporting dead-end products, and …

Diversity and Distribution of Volatile Secondary Metabolites Throughout Bacillus subtilis Isolates

M Kai - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Bacillus subtilis releases a broad range of volatile secondary metabolites, which are
considered as long-and short distance infochemical signals mediating inter-and intra …