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… and environmental challenges. Viruses are everywhere — in soil, the sea and, of course, the cells of other organisms. … can do. For example, understanding virus-host dynamics in soil microbiomes could allow for more accurate ecosystem … microbial genes. Eventually, whether the goal is improving soil microbiomes for carbon capture or removing harmful …

… estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can also act as a …

… Pinpointing the processes happening on and in forest soil also better enriches models of global carbon and … what escapes to the atmosphere in the form of greenhouse gases (e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide). … needed to build a detailed database on the denizens in the soil. While large protein databases, like UniProt, exist, are …

… (BER), Brodie and his colleagues have been running a soil-warming experiment in the Sierra Nevada mountain range … responses and feedbacks to warming through the whole soil profile. The goals of their FICUS proposal include … ground, influencing the production of microbial greenhouse gases and volatile organic compounds. This was the seventh …

… Portal were instrumental to  a study that looked into how soil viruses , and in particular a chitosanase protein, can contribute to soil health. He also contributed to an update of  the JGI’s … article detailing how forest floors, in particular the soil microbiome, recover post-wildfire . He and  Tringe were …

… sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species decompose debris, mobilize … that decay, and deliver those nutrients to tree roots and soil. These fungi help shape a forest’s ecology. They store … nitrogen and phosphorus.  This way, the fungi of forest soils hold keys to tree health and carbon storage — skills …