Heavy metal pollution caused due to various industrial and mining activities poses a serious
threat to all forms of life in the environment because of the persistence and toxicity of metal …

The application of artificial microbial consortia for biotechnological production processes is
an emerging field in research as it offers great potential for the improvement of established …

Plant-sourced aromatic amino acid (AAA) derivatives are a vast group of compounds with
broad applications. Here, we present the development of a yeast consortium for efficient …

Wine fermentation is a representation of complex higher-order microbial interactions.
Despite the beneficial properties that these communities bring to wine, their complexity …

Predictively linking taxonomic composition and quantitative ecosystem functions is a major
aspiration in microbial ecology, which must be resolved if we wish to engineer microbial …

Microbial mixed cultures are gaining increasing attention as biotechnological production
systems, since they offer a large but untapped potential for future bioprocesses. Effects of …

The general interest in microbial ecology has skyrocketed over the past decade, driven by
technical advances and by the rapidly increasing appreciation of the fundamental services …

Flow cytometry is an important technology for the study of microbial communities. It grants
the ability to rapidly generate phenotypic single-cell data that are both quantitative …

Cross feeding between microbes is ubiquitous, but its impact on the diversity and
productivity of microbial communities is incompletely understood. A reductionist approach …

Biofilms are highly resistant to antimicrobials and are a common problem in many industries,
including pharmaceutical, food and beverage. Yeast biofilms can be formed by various yeast …