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Soil microbiology is the scientific discipline that is concerned with the study of all biological aspects of the microorganisms (bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, parasites and protozoa) that exist in the soil environment. This is a subdiscipline of environmental microbiology.
A predictive model developed using machine learning, high-throughput sequencing of the microbiomes associated with seed tubers and drone imaging of the crops growing from the tubers can forecast the performance of potato plants based on the microbiome composition of their seed tubers. In addition, this model can identify the best microbial predictors of potato plant growth.
A small ferredoxin (Shethna protein II) of Azotobacter vinelandii can provide protection from O2 stress that may be crucial for the maintenance of recombinant nitrogenase in food crops.
Use of transposon-sequencing (Tn-seq) to explore the genetic basis underlying the incompatibility of the beta-rhizobium Paraburkholderia phymatum STM815 with soybean reveals that in the absence of the nodulation factor NodS, it could nodulate this agriculturally important crop.
A predictive model developed using machine learning, high-throughput sequencing of the microbiomes associated with seed tubers and drone imaging of the crops growing from the tubers can forecast the performance of potato plants based on the microbiome composition of their seed tubers. In addition, this model can identify the best microbial predictors of potato plant growth.
The vast stores of high-latitude peatland carbon are thought to be resistant to microbial degradation, but a multi-omics investigation suggests this might not be the case.
Decomposer microbiomes are universal across cadavers regardless of environmental conditions, and they use complex cross-feeding and interkingdom interactions to break down organic matter.
In this study, Liu et al. demonstrate that the T7SS of the rhizobacterium Bacillus velezensis SQR9 and its effector protein YukE cause iron leakage in plant roots to support root colonization.
