Lignin valorization: production of high value-added compounds by engineered microorganisms

E Rosini, F Molinari, D Miani, L Pollegioni - Catalysts, 2023 - mdpi.com
Lignin is the second most abundant polymer in nature, which is also widely generated
during biomass fractionation in lignocellulose biorefineries. At present, most of technical …

Nitrogen availability mediates soil carbon cycling response to climate warming: A meta‐analysis

T Bai, P Wang, Y Qiu, Y Zhang, S Hu - Global Change Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Global climate warming may induce a positive feedback through increasing soil carbon (C)
release to the atmosphere. Although warming can affect both C input to and output from soil …

Conditional filamentation as an adaptive trait of bacteria and its ecological significance in soils

DC Karasz, AI Weaver, DH Buckley… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bacteria can regulate cell morphology in response to environmental conditions, altering their
physiological and metabolic characteristics to improve survival. Conditional filamentation, in …

Experimental warming accelerates positive soil priming in a temperate grassland ecosystem

X Tao, Z Yang, J Feng, S Jian, Y Yang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Unravelling biosphere feedback mechanisms is crucial for predicting the impacts of global
warming. Soil priming, an effect of fresh plant-derived carbon (C) on native soil organic …

High temperatures enhance the microbial genetic potential to recycle C and N from necromass in high‐mountain soils

J Donhauser, W Qi, B Bergk‐Pinto… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is strongly affecting high‐mountain soils and warming in particular is
associated with pronounced changes in microbe‐mediated C and N cycling, affecting plant …

Molecular 14C evidence for contrasting turnover and temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter components

J Jia, Z Liu, N Haghipour, L Wacker, H Zhang… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate projection requires an accurate understanding for soil organic carbon (SOC)
decomposition and its response to warming. An emergent view considers that environmental …

Integrated meta-omics approaches reveal Saccharopolyspora as the core functional genus in huangjiu fermentations

S Liu, ZF Zhang, J Mao, Z Zhou, J Zhang… - npj Biofilms and …, 2023 - nature.com
Identification of the core functional microorganisms in food fermentations is necessary to
understand the ecological and functional processes for making those foods. Wheat qu …

Microbial functional genes driving the positive priming effect in forest soils along an elevation gradient

F Zhao, J Wang, Y Li, X Xu, L He, J Wang, C Ren… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The priming effect is a pivotal mechanism for microbial regulation of soil C cycling; however,
the microbial mechanisms underlying priming effects remain elusive. Here, we combined an …

Succession of the soil bacterial community as resource utilization shifts from plant residues to rhizodeposits

Y Fu, Y Luo, C Tang, Y Li, G Guggenberger… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Identifying the core taxa involved in the utilization of plant straw or/and rhizodeposits is key
to understanding the microbial mechanisms underlying the turnover of these plant-derived …

Microbial community structure and functional genes drive soil priming effect following afforestation

S Zhou, J Wang, L Chen, J Wang, F Zhao - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Afforestation substantially modifies native soil organic carbon (SOC) decomposition via plant
carbon inputs (the priming effect), and in turn, triggers vital biogeochemical processes that …