The Atacama Desert: technical resources and the growing importance of novel microbial diversity

AT Bull, JA Asenjo, M Goodfellow… - Annual Review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Encapsulation Strategies for Bacillus thuringiensis: From Now to the Future

JL De Oliveira, LF Fraceto, A Bravo… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) has been recognized for its high potential in the control of various
agricultural pests. Developments in micro/nanotechnology have opened new perspectives …

Diversity and phylogenetic profiling of niche-specific Bacilli from extreme environments of India

AN Yadav, P Verma, M Kumar, KK Pal, R Dey… - Annals of …, 2015 - Springer
The diversity of culturable, aerobic and heterotrophic Bacillus and Bacillus-derived genera
(BBDG) was investigated in various extreme environments (including thermal springs, cold …

Carotenoids from UV-resistant Antarctic Microbacterium sp. LEMMJ01

MCPP Reis-Mansur, JS Cardoso-Rurr, JVMA Silva… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The Microbacterium sp. LEMMJ01 isolated from Antarctic soil does not belong to any of the
nearest species identified in the RDP database. Under UV radiation (A, B and C …

Shedding light on the composition of extreme microbial dark matter: alternative approaches for culturing extremophiles

J Schultz, F Modolon, RS Peixoto… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
More than 20,000 species of prokaryotes (less than 1% of the estimated number of Earth's
microbial species) have been described thus far. However, the vast majority of microbes that …

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile as an analog model of Mars

A Azua-Bustos, C Gonzalez-Silva… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Rare taxa and dark microbial matter: novel bioactive actinobacteria abound in Atacama Desert soils

M Goodfellow, I Nouioui, R Sanderson, F **e… - Antonie Van …, 2018 - Springer
An “in house” taxonomic approach to drug discovery led to the isolation of diverse
actinobacteria from hyper-arid, extreme hyper-arid and very high altitude Atacama Desert …

Discovery and microbial content of the driest site of the hyperarid A tacama D esert, C hile

A Azua‐Bustos, L Caro‐Lara… - Environmental …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The A tacama D esert is the driest and oldest desert on E arth. Eleven years ago, the Y
ungay region was established as the driest site of this hyperarid desert and also close to the …

Unprecedented rains decimate surface microbial communities in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert

A Azua-Bustos, AG Fairén, C González-Silva… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert, the driest and oldest desert on Earth, has
experienced a number of highly unusual rain events over the past three years, resulting in …

UV‐resistant yeasts isolated from a high‐altitude volcanic area on the Atacama Desert as eukaryotic models for astrobiology

AA Pulschen, F Rodrigues, RTD Duarte… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Sairecabur volcano (5971 m), in the Atacama Desert, is a high‐altitude extreme
environment with high daily temperature variations, acidic soils, intense UV radiation, and …