Need for Laboratory Ecosystems To Unravel the Structures and Functions of Soil Microbial Communities Mediated by Chemistry
Abstract
The chemistry underpinning microbial interactions provides an integrative framework for linking the activities of individual microbes, microbial communities, plants, and their environments. Currently, we know very little about the functions of genes and metabolites within these communities because genome annotations and functions are derived from the minority of microbes that have been propagated in the laboratory.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Sep 05, 2018
- Source ID
- 10.1128/mbio.01175-18
Entities
People
- Dianne Newman
- Karsten Zengler
- Kateryna Zhalnina
- Trent R. Northen
Organizations
- Army Research Office
- California Institute of Technology
- Istituto Superiore di SanitÃ
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- National Institutes of Health
- National Science Foundation
- United States Department of Energy
- University of California, San Diego