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A roadmap to understanding and anticipating microbial gene transfer in soil communities.
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- Engineering cyanobacterial resilience for cadmium bioremediation: linking Cd speciation, cellular detoxification, and synthetic biology.RSC advances · 2026Review
- Challenges and Future Directives of Synthetic Biology in Engineering Plant-Microbe Partnerships for Sustainable Agriculture.Biotechnology and bioengineering · 2026Review
- Describing the persistence landscape for introducing microbes into complex communities.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Review
- Cross-order detection of bacteriophage transduction in microbial communities using RNA barcoding.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Synthetic soils for ecological and synthetic biology applications.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2026Review
- Microbial community characterization in semi-hydroponic systems of Starbor kale (Current research in microbial sciences · 2026Article
- Secure biosystems design inApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
SUMMARYEngineered microbes are being programmed using synthetic DNA for applications in soil to overcome global challenges related to climate change, energy, food security, and pollution. However, we cannot yet predict gene transfer processes in soil to assess the frequency of unintentional transfer of engineered DNA to environmental microbes when applying synthetic biology technologies at scale. This challenge exists because of the complex and heterogeneous characteristics of soils, which contribute to the fitness and transport of cells and the exchange of genetic material within communities. Here, we describe knowledge gaps about gene transfer across soil microbiomes. We propose strategies to improve our understanding of gene transfer across soil communities, highlight the need to benchmark the performance of biocontainment measures
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