ReviewMicrobial biotechnology2017
Microbial biotechnology as a tool to restore degraded drylands.
Review in Microbial biotechnology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.
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- Synthetic Ecosystems: From the Test Tube to the Biosphere.ACS synthetic biology · 2024Review
- Biodiversity as a firewall to engineered microbiomes for restoration and conservation.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Dune Blowouts as Microbial Hotspots and the Changes of Overall Microbial Activity and Photosynthetic Biomass Along with Succession of Biological Soil Crusts.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- New microbial tools to boost restoration and soil organic matter.Microbial biotechnology · 2023Article
- Weaponising microbes for peace.Microbial biotechnology · 2023Article
- Landscape characteristics shape surface soil microbiomes in the Chihuahuan Desert.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Ecological complexity and the biosphere: the next 30 years.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Ecological firewalls for synthetic biology.iScience · 2022Article
- The environmental, economic, and social development impact of desertification in Iraq: a review on desertification control measures and mitigation strategies.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2022Review
- Microbial biotechnology to assure national security of supplies of essential resources: energy, food and water, medical reagents, waste disposal and a circular economy.Microbial biotechnology · 2022Article
- Biological Soil Crusts as Ecosystem Engineers in Antarctic Ecosystem.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Identification of the key functional genes in salt-stress tolerance of Cyanobacterium3 Biotech · 2021Article
- The soil crisis: the need to treat as a global health problem and the pivotal role of microbes in prophylaxis and therapy.Microbial biotechnology · 2021Article
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- Synthetic soil crusts against green-desert transitions: a spatial model.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
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Abstract
We briefly review how microbial biotechnology can contribute to improve activities aiming to restore degraded drylands and to combat their desertification, which are an integral part of the Sustainable Development Goal 15 of the 2030 Agenda. Microbial biotechnology offers notable promise to improve restoration actions based on the use of biocrust-forming engineered cyanobacteria, which play key roles in maintaining ecosystem structure and functioning in drylands worldwide. Advances in our understanding of microbiome associated to biocrusts and of the signalling involved in the communication among their constituents can also potentially enhance the outcome of restoration activities in drylands.
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