Plants live in association with diverse microorganisms, collectively called the microbiome.
These microbes live either inside (endosphere) or outside (episphere) of plant tissues …

The phylum Acidobacteria is one of the most widespread and abundant on the planet, yet
remarkably our knowledge of the role of these diverse organisms in the functioning of …

In the light of intensification of cropping practices and changing climatic conditions,
nourishing a growing global population requires optimizing environmental sustainability and …

Winner of the Society for Economic Botany's Mary W. Klinger Book Award. Cultural Forests
of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people …

Soil microorganisms are sensitive to environment disturbances, and such alterations have
consequences on microbial diversity and functions. Our hypothesis is that alpha diversity of …

This study focused on the impact of land-use changes and agricultural management of
soybean in Amazon forest soils on the abundance and composition of the acidobacterial …

Bio-char, biomass that has been deliberately charred to slow its rate of decomposition, has
been proposed as an amendment with the potential to sequester carbon and improve …

Background Currently, the naïve Bayesian classifier provided by the Ribosomal Database
Project (RDP) is one of the most widely used tools to classify 16S rRNA sequences, mainly …

Acidobacteria is a predominant bacterial phylum in tropical agricultural soils, including
sugarcane cultivated soils. The increased need for fertilizers due to the expansion of …

Here we show that verrucomicrobial community structure and abundance are extremely
sensitive to changes in chemical factors linked to soil fertility. Terminal restriction fragment …