Metagenomics: An effective approach for exploring microbial diversity and functions

NN Nam, HDK Do, KT Loan Trinh, NY Lee - Foods, 2023 - mdpi.com
Various fields have been identified in the “omics” era, such as genomics, proteomics,
transcriptomics, metabolomics, phenomics, and metagenomics. Among these …

Harnessing the omics revolution to address the global biodiversity crisis

LF De León, B Silva, KJ Avilés-Rodríguez… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Human disturbances are driving the current biodiversity crisis.•Fundamental
biodiversity challenges include biodiversity discovery, loss, and preservation.•The omics …

Uncontrolled deforestation and population growth threaten a tropical island's water and land resources in only 10 years

A Foucher, O Evrard, L Rabiet, O Cerdan… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Rapid demographic growth in tropical islands can exacerbate conflicts and pressures on
natural resources, as illustrated by the French island of Mayotte where resources are limited …

Improved sampling and DNA extraction procedures for microbiome analysis in food-processing environments

C Barcenilla, JF Cobo-Díaz, F De Filippis… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Deep investigation of the microbiome of food-production and food-processing environments
through whole-metagenome sequencing (WMS) can provide detailed information on the …

Coupling remote sensing and eDNA to monitor environmental impact: A pilot to quantify the environmental benefits of sustainable agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon

K Dyson, AP Nicolau, K Tenneson, W Francesconi… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Monitoring is essential to ensure that environmental goals are being achieved, including
those of sustainable agriculture. Growing interest in environmental monitoring provides an …

Improving the efficiency of DNA extraction from iron incrustations and oilfield-produced water

MJ Foysal, SJ Salgar-Chaparro - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The quantity and quality of DNA isolated from environmental samples are crucial for getting
robust high-throughput sequencing data commonly used for microbial community analysis …

RIAM: A universal accessible protocol for the isolation of high purity DNA from various soils and other humic substances

AG Pinaev, AA Kichko, TS Aksenova… - Methods and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
A single universal open protocol RIAM (named after Research Institute for Agricultural
Microbiology) for the isolation of high purity DNA from different types of soils and other …

Recent advances in the culture-independent discovery of natural products using metagenomic approaches

S Yiping, LIU Nan, W Zongqiang - Chinese Journal of Natural Medicines, 2024 - Elsevier
Natural products derived from bacterial sources have long been pivotal in the discovery of
drug leads. However, the cultivation of only about 1% of bacteria in laboratory settings has …

Optimization of pore size and filter material for better enrichment of environmental DNA

Q Liu, J Tan, M Wang, N Xin, R Qi… - Frontiers in Environmental …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
In the study of environmental DNA (eDNA), the rate of water filtration and the amount of DNA
obtained are of general interest to researchers. We compared the PCTE filters with different …

Improved sampling and DNA extraction procedures for microbiome analysis in food-processing environments

C Barcenilla Canduela, JF Cobo Díaz, F De Filippis… - Nature … - buleria.unileon.es
[EN] Deep investigation of the microbiome of food-production and foodprocessing
environments through whole-metagenome sequencing (WMS) can provide detailed …