Leandro Fonseca de Souza

Happy to sign this “Open letter: A global call to strengthen national soil biodiversity action through coordination and harmonization” published in @plantspplplanet & signed by 128 authors, directed to policymakers at #SBSTTA27

@theGSBI #SoilBiodiversity

Bacterial species join forces to boost production in soybean - without disrupting soil microbiome ​Combining a bacterial isolate with rhizobia can boost soybean production without disrupting the natural soil microbiome, a new study reveals.

Combining a bacterial isolate with rhizobia can boost soybean production without disrupting the natural soil microbiome, a new study from Brazil and Germany reveals. www.the-microbiologist.com/news/bacteri... @ufz.de @ufesoficial.bsky.social

A field of galaxies in space, dominated by an enormous, bright-white elliptical galaxy that is the core of a massive galaxy cluster. Many other elliptical galaxies can be seen around it. Also around it are short, curved, glowing red lines, which are images of distant background galaxies magnified and warped by gravitational lensing. A couple of foreground stars appear large and bright with long spikes around them.

A NEW DEEP FIELD FROM JWST 🤩🌌

some of these galaxies may have existed as early as 200 MILLION years after the big bang!

Pesquisa expande possibilidades para produção sustentável de soja Grupo de cientistas apoiado pela FAPESP testou uma nova combinação de microrganismos capazes de promover a fixação biológica de nitrogênio no solo. Estratégia trouxe maior crescimento e produção de va...

Cientistas testaram uma nova combinação de microrganismos capazes de promover a fixação biológica de nitrogênio no solo. A estratégia trouxe maior crescimento e produção de vagens nas plantas de #soja, além de reduzir a necessidade de adubação. agencia.fapesp.br/54462

Restoring vegetation cover in Amazon's pasture areas can reduce methane emissions, study reveals Proper pasture management in the Amazon, aimed at maintaining soil vegetation cover, can reduce methane emissions from livestock farming, according to a new study analyzing emissions and microorganism...

Proper pasture management in the Amazon, aimed at maintaining soil vegetation cover, can reduce methane emissions from livestock farming, according to a new study analyzing emissions and microorganisms in Amazonian soil. @leandro-fs.bsky.social

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Soil pH modulates the activity of low-affinity methane oxidation in soils from the Amazon region AbstractAims. In the Amazon region, pastures are the main land use subsequent to deforestation and this change can result in soil acidification and degrada

New research by @leandro-fs.bsky.social and colleagues investigates how soil pH affects methane oxidation in Amazonian soils, with findings indicating that liming can improve both soil fertility and methane oxidation in degraded areas.

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Co-inoculation with Bacillus thuringiensis RZ2MS9 and rhizobia improves the soybean development and modulates soil functional diversity We demonstrated that co-inoculating Bacillus thuringiensis RZ2MS9 with rhizobia in soybean does not affect soil taxonomic diversity over a production cycle

Can we boost crop yields without increasing agrochemicals? Bacterial inoculants offer a promising solution. And Combining them can be even better.

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Soil pH modulates the activity of low-affinity methane oxidation in soils from the Amazon region AbstractAims. In the Amazon region, pastures are the main land use subsequent to deforestation and this change can result in soil acidification and degrada

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Soil pH modulates the activity of low-affinity methane oxidation in soils from the Amazon region AbstractAims. In the Amazon region, pastures are the main land use subsequent to deforestation and this change can result in soil acidification and degrada

Sharing our latest publication: "Soil pH modulates the activity of low-affinity methane oxidation in soils from the Amazon region", published in the Journal of Applied Microbiology. Liming pasture soils can stimulate methane sequestration in soils from Amazon region.

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Microbial functional diversity and redundancy: moving forward Abstract. Microbial functional ecology is expanding as we can now measure the traits of wild microbes that affect ecosystem functioning. Here, we review te

Microbial functional diversity and redundancy: moving forward

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In UFES 🇧🇷, microbiology for the undergrads... and for the kids🔬

Meta‐analysis reveals globally sourced commercial mycorrhizal inoculants fall short Click on the article title to read more.

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Illumina Complete Long Read Assay yields contiguous bacterial genomes from human gut metagenomes Metagenomics enables direct investigation of the gene content and potential functions of gut bacteria without isolation and culture. However, metagenome-assembled genomes are often incomplete and have...

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Toward harnessing biodiversity–ecosystem function relationships in fungi Fungi are crucial for terrestrial ecosystems, yet the role of fungal diversity in ecosystem functions remains unclear. We synthesize fungal biodiversity and ecosystem function (BEF) relationships, foc...

Toward harnessing biodiversity–ecosystem function relationships in fungi
#Trends_Ecol_Evo by Kadri Runnel et al from Claus Bässler

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With 23K papers/year and 11K editors, are oversight problems at [Nature] Scientific Reports inevitable? Or should it be doable with the ~$60M that brings in...? deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o... via @deevybee.bsky.social

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too?

And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates.

A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.
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O Brasil arde em chamas: só em agosto deste ano, o volume de queimadas foi uma vez e meia maior do que ocorreu no mesmo mês do ano passado. O fogo que atrapalha a vida de pelo menos 10 milhões de brasileiros compromete a biodiversidade. O que será das árvores engolidas por ele e pela seca? Thread 👇

A Targeted Reference Database for Improved Analysis of Environmental 16S rRNA Oxford Nanopore Sequencing Data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

Inducing novel endosymbioses by implanting bacteria in fungi - Nature A study presents an approach to establish and track a new endosymbiotic partnership by implanting bacteria in a non-host fungus and shows that stable inheritance of the implanted bacteria is possible ...

Inducing novel endosymbioses by implanting bacteria in fungi www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Improved maximum growth rate prediction from microbial genomes by integrating phylogenetic information https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.03.616540v1 Microbial maximum growth rates vary widely across species and are key parameters for ecosystem model

Improved maximum growth rate prediction from microbial genomes by integrating phylogenetic information https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.03.616540v1

New pipeline alert: if you would like to explore what viruses/phages are in your metagenomes or metatransciptomes, but don't know where to start, we have (an) MVP for you now \o/ - journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....
Welcoming feedback/suggestion of improvement!

Feature sequence-based genome mining uncovers the hidden diversity of bacterial siderophore pathways

#eLife from Zhiyuan Li, @rkmicrobes.bsky.social, Zhong Wei
with @frimanscience.bsky.social Alex Jousset

elifesciences.org/articles/96719

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Effects of periodic bottlenecks on the dynamics of adaptive evolution in microbial populations Population bottlenecks can impact the rate of adaptation in evolving populations. On the one hand, each bottleneck reduces the genetic variation that fuels adaptation. On the other hand, each founder ...

Microbial Evolution section of #MicrobioJ published its 30th paper since launch in 2021 🎉

@relenski.bsky.social’s lab use models & experiments to test how bottlenecks affect adaptive dynamics

Thanks to all our authors for supporting society publishing!

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Phylogenetic diversity of Rhizobium species recovered from nodules of common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in fields in Uganda: R. phaseoli, R. etli, and R. hidalgonense Abstract. A total of 75 bacterial isolates were obtained from nodules of beans cultivated across 10 sites in six agro-ecological zones in Uganda. Using rec

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Host preference explains the high endemism of ectomycorrhizal fungi in a dipterocarp rainforest Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi are important tree symbionts within forests. The biogeography of ECM fungi remains to be investigated because it is challenging to observe and identify species. Because mo....

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