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ReviewIndian journal of microbiology2020

A Recent Overview of Microbes and Microbiome Preservation.

Om Prakash, Yogesh Nimonkar, Dhananjay Desai

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Review in Indian journal of microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. The role of Micro-biome engineering in enhancing Food safety and quality.Biotechnology notes (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025
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  18. Storage of soil microbiome for application in sustainable agriculture: prospects and challenges.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Om PrakashNational Centre for Microbial Resource (NCMR), National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune, Maharashtra 411007 India.ORCID 0000-0002-6568-0567
Yogesh NimonkarNational Centre for Microbial Resource (NCMR), National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune, Maharashtra 411007 India.
Dhananjay DesaiAnimal Science Section, ICAR-Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute, Ela, Old Goa, Goa 403402 India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microbes are mediators in almost all ecosystem processes and act as a pivotal game changer in various ecological activities, globally. Therefore, understanding of microbial community structure and related functions in different environmental and micro-environmental niches is not only critical, but also a matter of greatest importance. Due to our inability to cultivate and preserve all sorts of microorganisms, we are losing some ecologically and industrially relevant components of microbial community, due to extinction caused by environmental and climatic variations with time. Intact sample and microbiome preservation are crucial for future cultivation as well as to study the effects of ecological and climatic variations on community functionality and shift with time, using OMICS. Although, methods for pure culture preservation are almost optimized, the techniques of microbiome preservation still remain as an unsolved challenge for microbiologists due to technical and physiological constraints. Present article discusses, recent approaches of microbial preservation with special reference to intact sample, mixed culture and microbiome preservation. It also incorporates recent practices used to achieve the highest viability and metabolic activities in long-term preserved microbiome.

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CommunityCryoprotectantsEnrichmentMicrobiomePreservation

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PMID32655197
PMCPMC7329975

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