Sentences with phrase «of microbes in soils»

But researchers report today that they've figured out how to predict the structures of hundreds of unmapped proteins by gleaning insights from one of the strangest of places: «metagenomics» projects that sequence DNA from broad swaths of microbes in the soils and seas.

DeBruyn, who typically studies the communities of microbes in soils, is one of a handful of researchers probing such communities in and on cadavers.

Large - scale agriculture is changing the makeup of microbes in the soil, rendering it less biologically diverse.

«However, the balance of the microbes in the soil can be disturbed when seagrass beds start to decline due to other pressures, helping the alga invade new areas.»

Certain types of microbes in the soil seemed to speed plant flowering time, the team found, while others, such as members of the Proteobacteria phylum, slowed it down.

Not exact matches

What it does: This microbe is extremely versatile and can live in a wide range of environments, including soil, water, animals, plants, sewage, and hospitals in addition to humans.

Joey, It's my understanding that the selenium content of butter would relate closely to the amount avaiable in the particualr soil the cows ate their grass from and the microbes in that soil.....

California winegrowers use cover crops and compost in the vineyards to enrich healthy soils with biomass and vibrant populations of microbes and worms and to prevent erosion and attract helpful insects that prey on pests.

Secret to terroir may lie in bacteria, say scientists: Researchers in the U.S. have published a study suggesting that the characteristics associated with terroir could have more to do with microbes found around the root system of a vine, than the soil that it grows in...

There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that early contact with some of the infectious microbes found in soil can result in a lower risk of heart disease later in life.

So little can survive there that scientists have wondered whether snippets of DNA found in the soil are just part of the desiccated skeletons of long - dead microbes or traces of hunkered - down but still living colonies.

Warmer temperatures shorten the lifespan of soil microbes and this may affect soil carbon storage, according to a new NSF - funded study published in Nature Climate Change this week.

Most of the life in those biofilms was benign, made up of the kinds of microbes commonly associated with soil or water.

A Harvard team of faculty and Africanstudents have tapped into soil - dwelling microbes in order to provideelectricity for families in Tanzania.

When it does rain, the microbes become metabolically active, setting in motion a cascade of activity that dramatically alters both the community structure and the soil chemistry.

Previous experiments by Jansson and collaborators have shown that thawing frozen soil in the lab quickly leads to a burst of methane production, along with a change in the community of microbes.

In the first study of its kind, Rice University scientists have used synthetic biology to study how a popular soil amendment called «biochar» can interfere with the chemical signals that some microbes use to communicate.

They found an undiscovered diversity of microbes in Arctic soils and were able to describe several completely novel microbes in each type of soil.

Understanding how microbial communities in the biocrusts adapt to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.

In addition to helping plants procure nutrients, exudates are food sources for the microbes that are an important part of the soil microbiome.

This huge carbon flux from soil, which is due to the natural respiration of soil microbes and plant roots, begs one of the central questions in climate change science.

Research published in Science found that increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere cause soil microbes to produce more carbon dioxide, accelerating climate change.

Research published in Science today found that increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere cause soil microbes to produce more carbon dioxide, accelerating climate change.

A new climate change modeling tool developed by scientists at Indiana University, Princeton University and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration finds that carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere owing to greater plant growth from rising CO2 levels will be partially offset by changes in the activity of soil microbes that derive their energy from plant root growth.

«To not consider how microbes influence soil carbon in offsetting ways, promoting losses through enhanced decomposition but gains by protecting soil carbon, would lead to overestimates or underestimates of the role soils play in influencing global climate.»

Nathan Cude works in Novozymes» agbiotech division in Durham, North Carolina in the microbial discovery group, which isolates and identifies thousands of microbes collected from soil samples around the United States.

The research is in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. [Kelly S. Ramirez et al, Biogeographic patterns in below - ground diversity in New York City's Central Park are similar to those observed globally] Investigators looked at 596 separate soil samples from the park and found thousands of different types of microbes.

Their aversion probably occurs because the microbial enemies of a given kind of tree set up camp in the soil surrounding it, Mangan says, and «those microbes are more detrimental to the tree's own seedlings.»

The researchers note that their computational approach can also be used to analyze microbial ecosystems found in soil, ocean, lakes and more to detect universal dynamics of microbes in these environments as well.

Their results show that the presence of cheating microbes slows down the decomposition of organic material, so that it accumulates in soil.

This brings down the number of enzymes capable of decomposing dead microbes, per newly formed microbial remains, which consequently accumulate in the soil.

That waste, which contains microbes that can make humans sick, is collected in open pits or sprayed on fields as fertilizer, risking contamination of the air, water, and soil.

The study thereby introduces a new possible control mechanism — enabled by social interactions among individual microbes — that may help to explain the massive reservoir of carbon and other nutrients in soil.

Microbes in the soil digest some of what remains to produce nitrogen oxides, or NOx.

In one experiment, Dangl's team found that Arabidopsis plants with mutant versions of the PHR1 gene not only had impaired phosphate stress responses, but also developed different communities of microbes in and around their roots when grown in a local native North Carolina soiIn one experiment, Dangl's team found that Arabidopsis plants with mutant versions of the PHR1 gene not only had impaired phosphate stress responses, but also developed different communities of microbes in and around their roots when grown in a local native North Carolina soiin and around their roots when grown in a local native North Carolina soiin a local native North Carolina soil.

«A real opportunity for India's next generation of sustainable agriculture will be this area of plant probiotics, using microbes that naturally occur in the soil to help plants,» Bais said.

«Tropical soil microbes are responsible for the nearly complete decomposition of leaf plant litter in as little as eighteen months,» she says.

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An expedition into the Luquillo Experimental Forest in Puerto Rico by JBEI and Berkeley Lab researchers led to the identification of a soil microbe that utilizes lignin as its sole source of carbon.

«It's a purer taste with more sense of the terroir, because when you replace pesticides with labor, you have hands - on care for the vines and you improve the composition of the soil and you get back all the life — the microbes, insects, bees and worms that you need in agriculture.»

Northen and his collaborators deployed a set of tools that he calls «exometabolomics» which harnesses the analytical capabilities of the latest mass spectrometry techniques to quantitatively measure how each microbes and the biocrust community transforms complex mixtures of metabolites, in this case, from soil.

Understanding more about the interactions between the microbial communities — also called «microbiomes» — in the biocrusts and their adaptations to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.

The team suspects that differences in decomposing plant material might have led to changes over time in the community of microbes that process nitrogen in the soil and make it available to plants.

«Essentially, microbes won't eat each other's lunch if they depend on the other for a specific metabolite,» Northen said, describing this possible mechanism in support of soil biodiversity.

Much like humans, whose guts and skin are teeming with microbes, the soil below plants and trees contains a unique cornucopia of microscopic creatures that help the tree take in nutrients and water.

One of the strongest greenhouse gases, methane comes from agriculture and fossil fuel use, as well as natural sources such as microbes in saturated wetland soils.

It found that for trees in the comfortable middle of their range, down near the base of a mountain, their offspring thrived nearby in the rich, microbe - filled soil collected right below their parent.

To make matters worse, some of those excess nitrate molecules in the soil undergo another chemical change: Microbes help turn nitrate into gaseous nitrous oxide, which has roughly 300 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide.

To test the antibacterial properties of these soil microbes, the team let each of them duel in a lab dish with Staphylococcus aureus, a cause of serious skin and respiratory infections.

Since changes in the soil nitrogen cycle are driven by microbes, could bacteria associated with invasive species not only be responsible for the observed changes in soil nutrient concentrations, but also for enabling the continued growth and persistence of the invader species?