The complexity of interactions among microorganisms and of microorganisms with their environment and with other organisms is becoming increasingly understood by microbial ecology researchers, helped by the development of ...

Despite several reports point out a rhizosphere effect shaping soil microbial communities and others an effect of altitude on plant phenotypic features, currently little is known about the impact of elevational patterns ...

This review analyzes the main conceptual and methodological differences between macro-diversity (higherorganisms diversity) and micro-diversity (microbial diversity) assessment which can limit the application of conventional ...

The Atacama Desert has extreme environmental conditions that allow the development of unique microbial communities. The present paper reports the bacterial diversity of microbial mats and sediments and its mineralogical ...

The aim of this study was to characterize the microbial communities of Malbec vineyards recently established in a re-emerging wine region of Argentina. We studied the wine microbiota at different fermentation stages and ...

The volume of discarded solid wastes, especially plastic, which accumulates in large quan-tities in different environments, has substantially increased. Population growth and the consumption pattern of societies associated ...

Increasing consumption of blueberries is associated with appreciation of their organoleptic properties together with their multiple health benefits. The increasing number of outbreaks caused by pathogenic microorganisms ...