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Sustainable agriculture a challenge for soil microbiology

Revista Colombiana de Biotecnología, 2016
Soils: a solid foundation for life, was the theme of the celebration of 2015, the General Assembly of the UN, decides to declare as the International Year of Soils, considering that these are the foundation of agricultural development, the essential ...
Nubia Moreno Sarmiento
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Soil microbial biomass carbon and Jatropha curcas yield intecropping with forages and crop species

Agrarian, 2023
The domestication of Jatropha curcas L. in the Brazilian territory has been boosted by its great potential in the production of grains, oil and, in particular, its adaptation in different soil and climatic conditions.
Alessandra Oliveira da Silva, João Alfredo Neto da Silva, Sálvio Napoleão Soares Arcoverde, Graciela Benites de Oliveira, Egas José Armando, Cesar José da Silva   +5 more
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Simulated Leaching of Foliar Applied Copper Bactericides on the Soil Microbiome Utilizing Various Beta Diversity Resemblance Measurements

Microbiology Spectrum, 2022
Copper bactericides are routinely used to control Xanthomonas perforans (XP), causal agent of bacterial spot of tomato. Given the widespread tolerance to copper in XP strains in FL, USA, nanotechnology-based elemental composites have gained interest for ...
A. Strayer-Scherer, S. Timilsina, Y. Y. Liao, M. Young, E. N. Rosskopf, G. E. Vallad, E. M. Goss, S. Santra, J. B. Jones, J. C. Hong, M. L. Paret   +10 more
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Complementary Metagenomic Approaches Improve Reconstruction of Microbial Diversity in a Forest Soil

mSystems, 2020
Soil ecosystems harbor diverse microorganisms and yet remain only partially characterized as neither single-cell sequencing nor whole-community sequencing offers a complete picture of these complex communities.
L. V. Alteio, F. Schulz, R. Seshadri, N. Varghese, W. Rodriguez-Reillo, E. Ryan, D. Goudeau, S. A. Eichorst, R. R. Malmstrom, R. M. Bowers, L. A. Katz, J. L. Blanchard, T. Woyke   +12 more
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Methods for Studying Bacterial–Fungal Interactions in the Microenvironments of Soil

Applied Sciences, 2021
Due to their small size, microorganisms directly experience only a tiny portion of the environmental heterogeneity manifested in the soil. The microscale variations in soil properties constrain the distribution of fungi and bacteria, and the extent to ...
Edoardo Mandolini, Maraike Probst, Ursula Peintner   +2 more
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Regenerative Almond Production Systems Improve Soil Health, Biodiversity, and Profit

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021
Regenerative agriculture aims to improve soil health and promote biodiversity while producing nutritious food profitably. Almonds are the dominant crop in California agriculture in terms of acreage and revenue generated.
Tommy L. D. Fenster, Tommy L. D. Fenster, Patricia Y. Oikawa, Jonathan G. Lundgren   +3 more
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Applied Microbiology for Sustainable Agricultural Development

Applied Microbiology
Background: Developments in biology, genetics, soil science, plant breeding, engineering, and agricultural microbiology are driving advances in soil microbiology and microbial biotechnology.
Barbara Sawicka, Piotr Barbaś, Viola Vambol, Dominika Skiba, Piotr Pszczółkowski, Parwiz Niazi, Bernadetta Bienia   +6 more
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Biochar particle size coupled with biofertilizer enhances soil carbon-nitrogen microbial pools and CO2 sequestration in lentil

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
Introduction: Biochar and biofertilizer have emerged as sustainable soil amendments to improve soil fertility and quality. However, it is necessary to determine how biochar’s various particle sizes and biofertilizers affect soil microbial biomass carbon (
Wiqar Ahmad, Wiqar Ahmad, Wiqar Ahmad, Jaya Nepal, Zhiyou Zou, Zhiyou Zou, Fazal Munsif, Aziz Khan, Ijaz Ahmad, Sajjad Zaheer, Muhammad Shahid Khan, Sultan Akbar Jadoon, Danfeng Tang   +12 more
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STrack: A Tool to Simply Track Bacterial Cells in Microscopy Time-Lapse Images

mSphere, 2023
Bacterial growth can be studied at the single cell level through time-lapse microscopy imaging. Technical advances in microscopy lead to increasing image quality, which in turn allows to visualize larger areas of growth, containing more and more cells ...
Helena Todorov, Tania Miguel Trabajo, Jan Roelof van der Meer   +2 more
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Rhizosphere Prokaryotic Microbiome, Resistance to Mycoses and Productivity of Glycine max (L.) Merr. under Bacterial Inoculation and Fungicide Application [PDF]

Journal of Plant Protection Research
The use of fungicides to limit the development of soybean mycoses in modern agrocenoses is a common measure. At the same time, the use of symbiotic and phosphate-mobilizing bacteria increases the productivity and quality of the crop.
Galyna Iutynska, Liudmyla Tytova, Svitlana Vozniuk, Nadiia Shevchuk, Liudmyla Bilyavska   +4 more
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