Root-associated bacterial communities play a vital role in maintaining health of the plant
host. These communities exist in complex relationships, where composition and abundance …

Arid and semi-arid soils are characterized by nutrient deficiency and water scarcity,
declining soil quality and climate regimes that are unfavorable for crop production. These …

A significant proportion of the Earth's surface is desert or in the process of desertification.
The extreme environmental conditions that characterize these areas result in a surface that …

Water is vital for many biological processes and is essential for all living organisms.
However, numerous macroorganisms and microorganisms have adapted to survive in …

The lack of new antibiotics in the pharmaceutical pipeline guides more and more
researchers to leave the classical isolation procedures and to look in special niches and …

Extremophiles are organisms capable of adjust, survive or thrive in hostile habitats that were
previously thought to be adverse or lethal for life. Chile gathers a wide range of extreme …

Drought is one of the major problems worldwide. The search for new and efficient
microorganisms, from unexplored environments, to be used in association with plants to …

Global deserts occupy one-third of the Earth's surface and contribute significantly to organic
carbon storage, a process at risk in dryland ecosystems that are highly vulnerable to climate …

The McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica are a cold hyperarid polar desert that present
extreme challenges to life. Here, we report a culture-independent survey of multidomain …

Evolutionary trees of prokaryotes usually define the known classes and phyla but less often
agree on the relationships among those groups. This has been attributed to the effects of …