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Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on Microbial Diversity and Soil Health
Soil, the fragile top layer of the Earth’s ecosystem, is a crucial natural resource for supporting life on the planet. The majority of terrestrial...
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Detoxification of Contaminated Soil to Restore Its Health for Sustainable Agriculture
Around 2.5 million years in the past, the Homo genus originated in Africa, marking the initial utilisation of stone tools and remarkable evolutionary...
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Nano-biotechnology and Its Applications in Maintaining Soil Health
Today, with a vast increase in the sustainable development area, sustainable agriculture is the top need around the globe. Agriculture is the primary...
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Nutrient Recycling by Microbes for Healthy Soil
Soil is a source of various forms of life on the earth and performs various services in the ecosystem. Nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and sulphur...
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Organic and Natural Farming to Boost Soil Immunity
The most significant industry, or the foundation of the Indian economy, is agriculture. After green revolution, there has been a significant increase...
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Naming New Taxa of Prokaryotes: Rules and Recommendations
The nomenclature of prokaryotes is regulated by the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP; the Prokaryotic Code). The...
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Overall Genome Relatedness Indices: Interpretation and Defining New Taxonomic Ranks
DNA-DNA hybridization (DDH) has been used as the gold standard in prokaryote taxonomy, but it is labor-intensive and prone to experimental errors....
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Exploring Microbial Dark Matter and the Status of Bacterial and Archaeal Taxonomy: Challenges and Opportunities in the Future
There are very few places on Earth that are free of diverse microbial cellular life forms that can colonize in a variety of environmental niches and...
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Plant-Microbe Interactions and Crop Production
Plants are living entities that provide food, oxygen, and habitat for other organisms in the environment. Plants, like all living things, require...
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Unveiling Chemical Interactions Between Plants and Fungi Using Metabolomics Approaches
Metabolomics has been extensively used in clinical studies in the search for new biomarkers of human diseases. However, this approach has also been...
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Sample Preparation in Microbial Metabolomics: Advances and Challenges
Microbial metabolomics has gained significant interest as it reflects the physiological state of microorganisms. Due to the great variability of...
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Chemical-Biology and Metabolomics Studies in Phage-Host Interactions
For many years, several studies have explored the molecular mechanisms involved in the infection of bacteria by their specific phages to understand...
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Microbial Metabolites Annotation by Mass Spectrometry-Based Metabolomics
Since the discovery of penicillin, microbial metabolites have been extensively investigated for drug discovery purposes. In the last decades,...
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Metagenomic Screening of a Novel PET Esterase via In Vitro Expression System
Metagenomic screening is a widely applied biotechnological approach for screening of novel industrial enzymes. The traditional method of metagenomic...
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Identification of PKS Gene Clusters from Metagenomic Libraries Using a Next-Generation Sequencing Approach
Microbial secondary metabolites have been an important source of bioactive compounds with diverse applications from medicine to agriculture,...
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Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy Approach to Investigate Plant–Fungal Interactions
Plants interact with a broad range of microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi. In plant roots, complex microbial communities participate in plant...
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Analysis of Ancient Microbial DNA
The development of next-generation sequencing has led to a breakthrough in the analysis of ancient genomes, and the subsequent genomic analyses of...
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Metabarcoding of the Three Domains of Life in Aquatic Saline Ecosystems
High-throughput amplicon sequencing, known as metabarcodingMetabarcoding, is a powerful technique to decipher exhaustive microbial diversityMicrobial...
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Investigating Endobacteria that Thrive Within Mucoromycota
Metagenomics approaches have revealed the importance of Mucoromycota in the evolution and functioning of plant microbiomes. Comprised of three...
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Assembly and Annotation of Viral Metagenomes from Short-Read Sequencing Data
Viral metagenomics enables the detection, characterization, and quantification of viral sequences present in shotgun-sequenced datasets of purified...