Soil salinization adversely affects plant growth and has become one of the major limiting
factors for crop productivity worldwide. The conventional approach, breeding salt-tolerant …

Functional diversity is increasingly recognized by microbial ecologists as the essential link
between biodiversity patterns and ecosystem functioning, determining the trophic …

Microorganisms drive much of the Earth's nitrogen (N) cycle, but we still lack a global
overview of the abundance and composition of the microorganisms carrying out soil N …

Reducing tillage and growing cover crops, widely recommended practices for boosting soil
health, have major impacts on soil communities. Surprisingly little is known about their …

Fungi are important members of soil microbial communities in row-crop and grassland soils,
provide essential ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling, organic matter …

Understanding the contribution of soil microbial communities to ecosystem processes is
critical for predicting terrestrial ecosystem feedbacks under changing climate. Our current …

Although diversifying crop rotations with perennials and cover crops and implementing no-
tillage practices has been promoted as an effective strategy for increasing soil carbon and …

Microbial activities are the dynamic core in the soil nutrient cycle. To improve the
knowledges about the responses of soil microbial community structure and potential function …

Background and aims Soil microbial communities influence nutrient cycling, chemistry and
structure of soil, and plant productivity. In turn, agronomic practices such as fertilization and …

Modern progress in soil biology is associated with the use of new molecular biology
methods based on the isolation of total DNA from soil and its further analysis. The two main …