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Microbial indicators for soil quality.
Biol. Fertil. Soils 54, DOI: 10.1007/s00374-017-1248-3 (2017)
The living soil is instrumental to key life support functions (LSF) that safeguard life on Earth. The soil microbiome has a main role as a driver of these LSF. Current global developments, like anthropogenic threats to soil (e.g., via intensive agriculture) and climate change, pose a burden on soil functioning. Therefore, it is important to dispose of robust indicators that report on the nature of deleterious changes and thus soil quality. There has been a long debate on the best selection of biological indicators (bioindicators) that report on soil quality. Such indicators should ideally describe organisms with key functions in the system, or with key regulatory/connecting roles (so-called keystone species). However, in the light of the huge functional redundancy in most soil microbiomes, finding specific keystone markers is not a trivial task. The current rapid development of molecular (DNA-based) methods that facilitate deciphering microbiomes with respect to key functions will enable the development of improved criteria by which molecular information can be tuned to yield molecular markers of soil LSF. This review critically examines the current state-of-the-art in molecular marker development and recommends avenues to come to improved future marker systems.
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Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
Indicators ; Life Support Functions ; Microbial Diversity ; Soil Microbiome; Maize Lines; In-situ; Diversity; Rhizosphere; Microorganisms; Communities; Variability; Efficiency; Ecology; Genes
Language
english
Publication Year
2017
HGF-reported in Year
2017
ISSN (print) / ISBN
0178-2762
e-ISSN
1432-0789
Journal
Biology and Fertility of Soils
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Volume: 54,
Issue: 1
Publisher
Springer
Publishing Place
New York
Reviewing status
Peer reviewed
Institute(s)
Research Unit Comparative Microbiome Analysis (COMI)
POF-Topic(s)
30202 - Environmental Health
Research field(s)
Environmental Sciences
PSP Element(s)
G-504700-001
WOS ID
WOS:000419135400001
Scopus ID
85041461610
Scopus ID
85031907946
Erfassungsdatum
2017-10-30