A plant microbiome includes a microbial community that typically interacts extensively with a plant.
"Whether you're genetically obese or obese from a high-fat diet, you end up with a microbial community that is particularly good at extracting calories.
Antibiotics have the potential to adversely affect the microbial community that is present in biological wastewater treatment processes.
The objective of this study was to investigate the relevant arsenite-oxidizing and arsenate-reducing microbial community that exists in highly arsenic-contaminated groundwater in Taiwan.
The human gastrointestinal tract is colonised with a dense and diverse microbial community, that is an important player in human health and physiology.
The microbial community that lives on and in the human body exerts a major impact on human health, from metabolism to immunity.
This includes greater attention to sanitation, maintaining a robust microbial community that will inhibit root-infecting pathogens and avoiding practices that predispose trees to disease, such as excessive fertilization and poorly drained soils.
Distillery wastewaters are mostly treated via the biomethanation route; however, in this study the conditions in sequential batch reactor (SBR) are being set to develop and analyze the microbial community that opted for hydrogen production.
The respiration response in soils with a long-term glyphosate response would suggest there was a shift in the microbial community that could readily degrade glyphosate but this shift was not detected by EL-FAME.
While the stringency of mapping used here should ensure that we identify reads from the same population, it is possible that some mapped reads are from more distantly related members of the microbial community that are not part of the same population.
Our results suggest that both soil depth and microbial activity may have to be considered: at the community level, we found a significant effect of precipitation patterns on the soil microbial community that was inactive upon rewetting and located in the 0 5 cm soil layer.
