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Publication alert: Life at the borderlands: microbiomes of interfaces critical to One Health

This manuscript provides wonderful insights and examples as microbial communities are recruited, grow and impact the host as these tiny organisms play a key role in one system health.

Publication alert: Ranking environmental and edaphic attributes driving soil microbial community structure and activity with special attention to spatial and temporal scale

Discusses what attributes drive soil microbial community structure and activity at a variety of scales?

Credit - Janusz Walczak from Pixabay

Blog post – Tackling big environmental problems with the smallest organisms

Could the smallest living organisms, working in tiny communities in every environment, be used to solve large global challenges?

Publication alert – Streptomyces and their specialised metabolites for phytopathogen control.

A comparative review of in vitro and in planta studies exploring methods in which the metabolites produced by Streptomyces can help defend plants from pathogens, the signalling between the plant, pathogen and biocontrol agent and how these the streptomyces metabolites can be used to protect crops

Credit - National Cancer Institute

Publication alert – A review of non-nucleotide biomarker discovery protocols from body fluids in breast cancer diagnosis

A review on the inconstancies in the biomarker discovery pipelines for breast cancer diagnosis from non-invasive biofluids.

Wheat field. Credit - Meric Tuna

Publication alert – Diversity, community structure, and potential functions of root-associated bacterial communities of different wheat (Triticum aestivum) cultivars under field conditions

Better understanding the structure and function of wheat-soil microbiome to enable the development of superior cultivars for nutrient acquisition, disease protection and stress tolerance.

Intestine. Credit Lakshmiraman Oza

Blog post – The key to health could be in your gut.

Read about our cutting-edge science-backed research unlocking the secrets of the human gut microbiome for improved health benefits.

Soil. Credit George Becker

Publication alert – Growing soil organic carbon in dryland agricultural systems

The understanding of plant–microbe interactions can enable the growth of soil organic carbon, an important factor of soil fertility, in dryland agricultural systems, where it can be limiting.

Podcast – the impact of the soil microbiome on Australian agricultural crops.

Dr Lachlan Dow sits down with the team from the farm advice podcast to discuss the impact of soil microbiomes on agricultural crops.

Publication alert – Do small RNAs unlock the below ground microbiome-plant mystery?

Explores the below-ground world of microbiomes (bacteria and fungi) and plants, and how they interact and communicate with each other through inter-kingdom signalling. How these interactions play out can determine the plant’s health in both disease suppressive and non-suppressive soils.