Volume 95, Issue 9, September 2019

Soil-inhabiting fungi and oomycetes host diverse viruses with various effects on their hosts, potentially affecting the community structure of soil microorganisms as well as plants.

This review summarises data on thermophilic and thermotolerant methanotrophs and proposes that geothermal ecosystems host unrecognised species capable of methane oxidation at high temperatures, based on recently reported data.

The rhizosphere effect of the tidal marsh plants not only promotes total soil organic carbon decomposition rates, but also shifts the terminal metabolic pathways and reshapes the bacterial community structures.

The quantification study of amoA gene based on the RNA level was performed on the surface sediment of Lake Taihu, and suggests that active ammonium-oxidizing bacteria are the dominant ammonia oxidizer.

Domesticated–feral animal gut microbiota comparisons.

New clades of Bradyrhizobium and Microvirga have been identified as L. angustifolius endosymbionts.

Experiments carried out in the southern and northern Baltic Sea show that river water amendments evoke a significant response in bacterial growth, but the effects on overall bacterial community composition, and on the representation of a suite of nitrogen-cycling genes, are limited.

This study reports the discovery of a predominantly clonal population of the human pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus deneoformansfrom the soils of Saudi Arabia.

The response of S. cerevisiae to cocultivation with L. thermotolerans during alcoholic fermentations has been investigated using tandem mass tag–based proteomics combined with flow cytometry.

Tomato plants inoculated with the bacterial strains showed a remarkably enhanced biomass production and nutrient accumulation triggered by the inoculants and likely also by the microbiome shifts.

Arctic soil bacterial communities are influenced by spatial and edaphic factors and exhibit biogeographical distribution.

Interactions between marine anammox bacteria and sulfide-oxidizing denitrifiers revealed by mimicking substrate fluctuations and substrate-limiting conditions.

Based on multiyear field experiment in boreal forest ecosystem, new insights on the adaptation of fungal and bacterial communities to manipulation of plant root growth is provided.

Fungal decay type, either brown rot or white rot, determines not only the degree of degradation of wood carbohydrates but also the pattern of VOCs released by fungal decay action.

The altered biochemical profiles of peat soils under different plant functional types, such as blueberry and cotton-grass, had a measurable and distinct impact on the soil prokaryotic and fungal communities.

A multi-primer based amplicon sequencing approach allowed for a more comprehensive profile of sponge microbial community and demonstrated the host-specificity of microbiomes at the taxonomic ranks of sponge orders and families.