Plant secondary metabolites (PSMs) play many roles including defense against pathogens,
pests, and herbivores; response to environmental stresses, and mediating organismal …

The emergence of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies has revolutionized the
way to investigate the microbial diversity in traditional fermentations. In the field of food …

The human microbiome has emerged as a central research topic in human biology and
biomedicine. Current microbiome studies generate high-throughput omics data across …

Long-term traditional clean tillage (CT) causes soil nutrient losses in hilly apple orchards.
Thus, suitable soil management practices are needed to reduce these losses and achieve …

While we have a basic understanding of the functioning of the gene when coding sequences
of specific proteins, we feel the lack of information on the role that DNA has on specific …

Chloropicrin (CP) is the most commonly used soil fumigant worldwide. Although CP
effectively controls soilborne pathogens, it is also detrimental to beneficial soil …

Marker gene sequencing of the rRNA operon (16S, 18S, ITS) or cytochrome c oxidase I
(CO1) is a popular means to assess microbial communities of the environment, microbiomes …

16S rRNA gene profiling is currently the most widely used technique in microbiome research
and allows the study of microbial diversity, taxonomic profiling, phylogenetics, functional and …

Background The ability to compare samples or studies easily using metabarcoding so as to
better interpret microbial ecology results is an upcoming challenge. A growing number of …

Background There is a unique microbial community in the female lower genital tract known
as the vaginal microbiota, which varies in composition and density and provides significant …