Soil pH determines microbial diversity and composition in the park grass experiment

K Zhalnina, R Dias, PD de Quadros… - Microbial ecology, 2015 - Springer
Abstract The Park Grass experiment (PGE) in the UK has been ongoing since 1856. Its
purpose is to study the response of biological communities to the long-term treatments and …

Bois noir management in vineyard: a review on effective and promising control strategies

R Pierro, A Moussa, N Mori, C Marcone… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Among grapevine yellows, Bois noir (BN), associated with 'Candidatus Phytoplasma solani',
represents the biggest threat in the main wine-growing areas worldwide, causing significant …

Bacteroides dorei dominates gut microbiome prior to autoimmunity in Finnish children at high risk for type 1 diabetes

AG Davis-Richardson, AN Ardissone, R Dias… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The incidence of the autoimmune disease, type 1 diabetes (T1D), has increased
dramatically over the last half century in many developed countries and is particularly high in …

Taxonomic classification of bacterial 16S rRNA genes using short sequencing reads: evaluation of effective study designs

O Mizrahi-Man, ER Davenport, Y Gilad - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Massively parallel high throughput sequencing technologies allow us to interrogate the
microbial composition of biological samples at unprecedented resolution. The typical …

Harnessing host-vector microbiome for sustainable plant disease management of phloem-limited bacteria

P Trivedi, C Trivedi, J Grinyer, IC Anderson… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Plant health and productivity is strongly influenced by their intimate interaction with
deleterious and beneficial organisms, including microbes, and insects. Of the various plant …

Minimization of chloroplast contamination in 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing of insect herbivore bacterial communities

AS Hanshew, CJ Mason, KF Raffa, CR Currie - Journal of microbiological …, 2013 - Elsevier
Chloroplast sequence contamination in 16S ribosomal RNA gene (16S) analyses can be
particularly problematic when sampling microbial communities in plants and folivorous …

Coal mining practices reduce the microbial biomass, richness and diversity of soil

PD de Quadros, K Zhalnina, AG Davis-Richardson… - Applied Soil …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes within the environment by mining processes include increased soil
acidification, compaction, erosion, and air and water pollution. As it affects directly the soil …

Compromised gut microbiota networks in children with anti-islet cell autoimmunity

D Endesfelder, W zu Castell, A Ardissone… - Diabetes, 2014 - Am Diabetes Assoc
The gut microbiome is suggested to play a role in the pathogenesis of autoimmune
disorders such as type 1 diabetes. Evidence of anti-islet cell autoimmunity in type 1 diabetes …

Combining 'omics and microscopy to visualize interactions between the Asian citrus psyllid vector and the Huanglongbing pathogen Candidatus Liberibacter …

A Kruse, S Fattah-Hosseini, S Saha, R Johnson… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Huanglongbing, or citrus greening disease, is an economically devastating bacterial
disease of citrus. It is associated with infection by the gram-negative bacterium Candidatus …

Nanopore sequencing as a surveillance tool for plant pathogens in plant and insect tissues

A Bronzato Badial, D Sherman, A Stone… - Plant …, 2018 - Am Phytopath Society
Plant pathogens are constantly emerging and spreading into new areas and there are often
limited postdiagnosis treatment options for infection, making surveillance key to their control …