Increasing crop yields and ensuring food security is a major global challenge. In order to
increase crop production, chemical fertilizers and pesticides are excessively used. However …

Orchid distribution and population dynamics are influenced by a variety of ecological factors
and the formation of holobionts, which play key roles in colonization and ecological …

Integrated network analysis pipeline (iNAP) is an online analysis pipeline for generating and
analyzing comprehensive ecological networks in microbiome studies. It is implemented in …

Global warming may alter microbially mediated ecosystem functions through reshaping of
microbial diversity and modified microbial interactions. Here, we examined the effects of 5 …

Microbes play an important role in aquatic carbon cycling but we have a limited
understanding of their functional responses to changes in temperature across large …

The spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) has gained much attention worldwide,
while the contribution of vertical gene transfer (VGT) and horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is …

Intensive cultivation with accompanying nitrogen fertilization leads to soil acidification in
croplands of southern China, which in turn, imperils soil health, restricting the sustainability …

Shifts in rhizosphere soil microorganisms of dominant plants' response to climate change
profoundly impact mountain soil ecosystem multifunctionality; relatively little is known about …

Background For achieving long-term sustainability of intensive agricultural practices, it is
pivotal to understand belowground functional stability as belowground organisms play …

Soil protists, the major predator of bacteria and fungi, shape the taxonomic and functional
structure of soil microbiome via trophic regulation. However, how trophic interactions …