Microbial modulators of soil carbon storage: integrating genomic and metabolic knowledge for global prediction

P Trivedi, IC Anderson, BK Singh - Trends in microbiology, 2013 - cell.com
Soil organic carbon performs a number of functions in ecosystems and it is clear that
microbial communities play important roles in land–atmosphere carbon (C) exchange and …

Life under extreme energy limitation: a synthesis of laboratory-and field-based investigations

MA Lever, KL Rogers, KG Lloyd… - FEMS microbiology …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The ability of microorganisms to withstand long periods with extremely low energy input has
gained increasing scientific attention in recent years. Starvation experiments in the …

Wildfire-dependent changes in soil microbiome diversity and function

AR Nelson, AB Narrowe, CC Rhoades, TS Fegel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Forest soil microbiomes have crucial roles in carbon storage, biogeochemical cycling and
rhizosphere processes. Wildfire season length, and the frequency and size of severe fires …

Viromes outperform total metagenomes in revealing the spatiotemporal patterns of agricultural soil viral communities

C Santos-Medellin, LA Zinke, AM Ter Horst… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Viruses are abundant yet understudied members of soil environments that influence
terrestrial biogeochemical cycles. Here, we characterized the dsDNA viral diversity in …

Soil bacterial and fungal response to wildfires in the Canadian boreal forest across a burn severity gradient

T Whitman, E Whitman, J Woolet, MD Flannigan… - Soil Biology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Global fire regimes are changing, with increases in wildfire frequency and severity expected
for many North American forests over the next 100 years. Fires can result in dramatic …

Bacterial mediated amelioration of drought stress in drought tolerant and susceptible cultivars of rice (Oryza sativa L.)

YS Gusain, US Singh, AK Sharma - African Journal of Biotechnology, 2015 - ajol.info
In the present study, plant growth promoting rhizobacterial (PGPR) strains Pseudomonas
fluorescence strain P2, Pseudomonas jessenii R62, Pseudomonas synxantha R81, Bacillus …

Phylogenetic framework and molecular signatures for the main clades of the phylum Actinobacteria

B Gao, RS Gupta - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
The phylum Actinobacteria harbors many important human pathogens and also provides
one of the richest sources of natural products, including numerous antibiotics and other …

Predominant bacterial and fungal assemblages in agricultural soils during a record drought/heat wave and linkages to enzyme activities of biogeochemical cycling

V Acosta-Martinez, J Cotton, T Gardner… - Applied Soil …, 2014 - Elsevier
Identification of microbial assemblages predominant under natural extreme climatic events
will aid in our understanding of the resilience and resistance of microbial communities to …

Advances in molecular and “-omics” technologies to gauge microbial communities and bioremediation at xenobiotic/anthropogen contaminated sites

C Desai, H Pathak, D Madamwar - Bioresource Technology, 2010 - Elsevier
Microbial bioremediation has been well-demonstrated as an ecofriendly and cost-
competitive strategy for elimination of xenobiotic and or anthropogenic compounds from the …

Urease activity of ureolytic bacteria isolated from six soils in which calcite was precipitated by indigenous bacteria

MB Burbank, TJ Weaver, BC Williams… - Geomicrobiology …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Ten distinct and phylogenetically diverse bacterial strains able to produce urease
constitutively, even in the presence of high levels of ammonia, were isolated. Each isolate …