SynthesisMicrobial ecology2023
Unboxing the black box-one step forward to understand the soil microbiome: A systematic review.
Synthesis in Microbial ecology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Microbial-driven nature-based solutions for environmental antimicrobial resistance and emerging contaminants: mechanisms, platform trade-offs, and decision framework.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Pooled it
- Soil Microeukaryote Diversity in the Crop Fields of Panama.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- Bacterial Diversity and Functional Dynamics in the Soybean (Glycine max L.) Rhizosphere Under Different Organic Fertilisation.Environmental microbiology reports · 2026Article
- Synthetic soils for ecological and synthetic biology applications.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2026Review
- Next-generation soil monitoring: linking metagenomics, biosensors, and ecological modeling for sustainable agriculture.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Synthetic imaging for research and education in nuclear medicine: Who's afraid of the black box?European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2025Article
- Soil Fungal Diversity, Community Structure, and Network Stability in the Southwestern Tibetan Plateau.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Not all is lost: resilience of microbiome samples to freezer failures and long-term storage.mSphere · 2025Article
- Impact of mineral fertilization andFrontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Soil microbiome characterization and its future directions with biosensing.Journal of biological engineering · 2024Article
- The defensome of complex bacterial communities.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Occupational farm work activities influence workers' indoor home microbiome.Environmental research · 2024Article
- More than a meat- or synthetic nitrogen fertiliser-substitute: a review of legume phytochemicals as drivers of 'One Health' via their influence on the functional diversity of soil- and gut-microbes.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Review
- Drought stress mitigation through bioengineering of microbes and crop varieties for sustainable agriculture and food security.Current research in microbial sciences · 2024Review
- The Bacterial GJournal of chemical ecology · 2023Article
- Differences in microbial community structure and metabolic activity among tea plantation soils under different management strategies.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Characterization of bacterial diversity between two coastal regions with heterogeneous soil texture.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Soil microbial diversity and functional capacity associated with the production of edible mushroomPeerJ · 2022Article
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Abstract
Soil is one of the most important assets of the planet Earth, responsible for maintaining the biodiversity and managing the ecosystem services for both managed and natural ecosystems. It encompasses large proportion of microscopic biodiversity, including prokaryotes and the microscopic eukaryotes. Soil microbiome is critical in managing the soil functions, but their activities have diminutive recognition in few systems like desert land and forest ecosystems. Soil microbiome is highly dependent on abiotic and biotic factors like pH, carbon content, soil structure, texture, and vegetation, but it can notably vary with ecosystems and the respective inhabitants. Thus, unboxing this black box is essential to comprehend the basic components adding to the soil systems and supported ecosystem services. Recent advancements in the field of molecular microbial ecology have delivered commanding tools to examine this genetic trove of soil biodiversity. Objective of this review is to provide a critical evaluation of the work on the soil microbiome, especially since the advent of the NGS techniques. The review also focuses on advances in our understanding of soil communities, their interactions, and functional capabilities along with understanding their role in maneuvering the biogeochemical cycle while underlining and tapping the unprecedented metagenomics data to infer the ecological attributes of yet undiscovered soil microbiome. This review focuses key research directions that could shape the future of basic and applied research into the soil microbiome. This review has led us to understand that it is difficult to generalize that soil microbiome plays a substantiated role in shaping the soil networks and it is indeed a vital resource for sustaining the ecosystem functioning. Exploring soil microbiome will help in unlocking their roles in various soil network. It could be resourceful in exploring and forecasting its impacts on soil systems and for dealing with alleviating problems like rapid climate change.
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