Soil Microbiology

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A genomic catalog of Earth's microbiomes. 
  • A multifactor analysis of fungal and bacterial community structure in the root microbiome of mature Populus deltoides trees. 
  • A new framework for approaching precision bioremediation of PAH contaminated soils. 
  • A review of the environmental implications of in situ remediation by nanoscale zero valent iron (nZVI): Behavior, transport and impacts on microbial communities. 
  • Afforestation alters the composition of functional genes in soil and biogeochemical processes in South American grasslands. 
  • Amino acid abundance and proteolytic potential in North American soils. 
  • Assessment of soil microbial community structure by use of taxon-specific quantitative PCR assays. 
  • Associations among arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and seedlings are predicted to change with tree successional status. 
  • Atmospheric CO2 enrichment facilitates cation release from soil. 
  • Cadmium(II) removal by a hyperaccumulator fungus Phoma sp. F2 isolated from blende soil. 
  • Characteristics of Rhizobium tianshanense sp. nov., a moderately and slowly growing root nodule bacterium isolated from an arid saline environment in Xinjiang, People's Republic of China. 
  • Common bacterial responses in six ecosystems exposed to 10 years of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide. 
  • Community dynamics of soil-borne fungal communities along elevation gradients in neotropical and palaeotropical forests. 
  • Cryptococcus gattii VGIII isolates causing infections in HIV/AIDS patients in Southern California: identification of the local environmental source as arboreal. 
  • Differential nutrient limitation of soil microbial biomass and metabolic quotients (qCO2): is there a biological stoichiometry of soil microbes? 
  • Direct and interactive effects of enemies and mutualists on plant performance: a meta-analysis. 
  • Distinct microbial communities within the endosphere and rhizosphere of Populus deltoides roots across contrasting soil types. 
  • Ecological and Genomic Attributes of Novel Bacterial Taxa That Thrive in Subsurface Soil Horizons. 
  • Ecosystem engineers activate mycorrhizal mutualism in salt marshes. 
  • Emergomyces africanus in Soil, South Africa. 
  • Endemism and functional convergence across the North American soil mycobiome. 
  • Enhanced root exudation induces microbial feedbacks to N cycling in a pine forest under long-term CO2 fumigation. 
  • Environmental and anthropogenic controls over bacterial communities in wetland soils. 
  • Environmental conditions influence the plant functional diversity effect on potential denitrification. 
  • Evaluating the mycostimulation potential of select carbon amendments for the degradation of a model PAH by an ascomycete strain enriched from a superfund site. 
  • Evaluation of developing maize microbiomes and associations among nitrogen cyclers and key fungal taxa. 
  • FERONIA restricts Pseudomonas in the rhizosphere microbiome via regulation of reactive oxygen species. 
  • Fungal Community Responses to Past and Future Atmospheric CO2 Differ by Soil Type. 
  • Fungal community analysis by large-scale sequencing of environmental samples. 
  • Fungal pathogens. 
  • Genetic isolation between two recently diverged populations of a symbiotic fungus. 
  • Histoplasmosis Myocarditis in an Immunocompetent Host After a Recreational Mud Run. 
  • Host genotype and age shape the leaf and root microbiomes of a wild perennial plant 
  • Identification of fungi associated with municipal compost using DNA-based techniques. 
  • Impacts of organic carbon availability and recipient bacteria characteristics on the potential for TOL plasmid genetic bioaugmentation in soil slurries. 
  • Increases in the flux of carbon belowground stimulate nitrogen uptake and sustain the long-term enhancement of forest productivity under elevated CO₂. 
  • Investigating niche partitioning of ectomycorrhizal fungi in specialized rooting zones of the monodominant leguminous tree Dicymbe corymbosa. 
  • Investigating the mycobiome of the Holcomb Creosote Superfund Site. 
  • Landscape position influences microbial composition and function via redistribution of soil water across a watershed. 
  • Long-Term Effects of Copper Nanopesticides on Soil and Sediment Community Diversity in Two Outdoor Mesocosm Experiments. 
  • Membranomyces species are common ectomycorrhizal symbionts in Northern Hemisphere forests 
  • Metagenomic and small-subunit rRNA analyses reveal the genetic diversity of bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses in soil. 
  • Metatranscriptomic analysis of ectomycorrhizal roots reveals genes associated with Piloderma-Pinus symbiosis: improved methodologies for assessing gene expression in situ. 
  • Natural soil microbes alter flowering phenology and the intensity of selection on flowering time in a wild Arabidopsis relative. 
  • Nitrogen fertilization has a stronger effect on soil nitrogen-fixing bacterial communities than elevated atmospheric CO2. 
  • Phage-Resistant Bacteria Reveal a Role for Potassium in Root Colonization. 
  • Phylogenetic diversity of 200+ isolates of the ectomycorrhizal fungus Cenococcum geophilum associated with Populus trichocarpa soils in the Pacific Northwest, USA and comparison to globally distributed representatives. 
  • Phylogeny and phenotypic characterization of pathogenic Cryptococcus species and closely related saprobic taxa in the Tremellales. 
  • Plant community change mediates the response of foliar δ(15)N to CO 2 enrichment in mesic grasslands. 
  • Plant host and soil origin influence fungal and bacterial assemblages in the roots of woody plants. 
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions Facing Environmental Challenge. 
  • Polyphasic characterization of four soil-derived phenanthrene-degrading Acidovorax strains and proposal of Acidovorax carolinensis sp. nov. 
  • Potential nitrogen constraints on soil carbon sequestration under low and elevated atmospheric CO2. 
  • Progressive nitrogen limitation of ecosystem processes under elevated CO2 in a warm-temperate forest 
  • Responses of soil cellulolytic fungal communities to elevated atmospheric CO₂ are complex and variable across five ecosystems. 
  • Roots and fungi accelerate carbon and nitrogen cycling in forests exposed to elevated CO2. 
  • Survey of corticioid fungi in North American pinaceous forests reveals hyperdiversity, underpopulated sequence databases, and species that are potentially ectomycorrhizal. 
  • The Populus holobiont: dissecting the effects of plant niches and genotype on the microbiome. 
  • The Spatial Factor, Rather than Elevated CO(2), Controls the Soil Bacterial Community in a Temperate Forest Ecosystem 
  • The diversity and biogeography of soil bacterial communities. 
  • Thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration to elevated temperature 
  • Toward an ecological classification of soil bacteria. 
  • Using laboratory-generated biosolids to evaluate the microbial ecotoxicity of triclosan in a simulated land application scenario. 
  • Warming reverses top-down effects of predators on belowground ecosystem function in Arctic tundra. 
  • Widespread occurrence and phylogenetic placement of a soil clone group adds a prominent new branch to the fungal tree of life.