This project will identify and characterize the dominant uncultivated microorganisms that mediate major transformations in the soil carbon cycle. The genetic capacity of microbial communities can be studied through genomic approaches but it remains difficult to make direct links between the genetic capacity of microorganisms and their function in the soil carbon cycle.
Proposer: Dan Buckley, Cornell University
Proposal: Microbial metabolic dependency and its impacts on the soil carbon cycle