A. Spor

Evaluating the Effects of Environmental Disturbances and Pesticide Mixtures on N-cycle related Soil Microbial Endpoints

This study evaluates how environmental disturbances and pesticide mixtures affect soil microbial communities and nitrification processes.

Generic workflow for a rapid and easy design of strain-specific PCR and qPCR primers, applied to the assessment of bacterial strains survival in soil

The paper introduces a web-based workflow for designing strain-specific PCR/qPCR primers using microbial genomes, applied to assess Bacillus strain survival in soil.

Engineering multi-degrading bacterial communities to bioremediate soils contaminated with pesticides residues

The paper develops a protocol to build multi-degrading bacterial communities for bioremediation of pesticide-contaminated soils using genomic prediction and coalescence.

The central role of the interspecific interactions in the evolution of microbial communities

This study shows that interspecific interactions evolve in half of bacterial communities, increasing productivity by 15% beyond individual strain responses.

Community diversity determines the evolution of synthetic bacterial communities under artificial selection

This study shows that community richness increases productivity and metabolic capacity in synthetic bacterial communities under artificial selection.

Artificial selection of stable rhizosphere microbiota leads to heritable plant phenotype changes

Artificial selection of rhizosphere microbiota in Brachypodium distachyon leads to heritable changes in leaf greenness.

Labour sharing promotes coexistence in atrazine degrading bacterial communities

This study shows that labour sharing through gene loss promotes coexistence in atrazine-degrading bacterial consortia, enhancing degradation potential.

A core microbiota of the plant-earthworm interaction conserved across soils

The paper investigates how plant and earthworm interactions shape microbial communities in soil, identifying core microbiota and networks conserved across different soils.