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Paiva NL. 2000. An introduction to the biosynthesis of chemicals used in plant-microbe communication. J Plant Growth Regul 19 131-143. 

D6nari6, J. Roche, P. (1991). Rhizobium nodulation signals. In Molecular Signals in Plant-Microbe Communication, ed. D.P.S. Verma, pp. 295-324. Boca Raton, FL CRC Press. 

Perry, L. G, Alford, E. R., Horiuchi, J., Paschke, M. W., and Vivanco, J. M. (2007). Chemical signals in the rhizosphere Root-root and root-microbe communication. In The Rhizosphere Biochemistry and Organic Substances at the Soil-Plant Interface, 2nd edition, Pinton, R., Varanini, Z., and Nannipieri, P., eds., CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, pp. 297-330. 

GE can also greatly increase our understanding of what is going on in plants at a molecular level. Pam has been working for twenty years trying to understand how plants and microbes communicate. Why are some plants resistant to disease, and... 

The ultimate consequence of the spatial variations in microbe communities is the existence of geographic differences in ecosystem functioning. Community richness, composition, assembly and functional dissimilarity affect ecosystem productivity and functioning (Laakso and Setala, 1999 Fukami and Morin, 2003 Heemsbergen et al., 2004 Sanchez-Moreno et al., 2008). Given that microbes... 

After Flarvest. How do the memory effects shown by the other crops compare with those of winter wheat Winter wheat did not show a memory effect after one year, but oilseed rape does seem to do so. Researchers of the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service found that nitrate production by microbes in the soil after a rape crop increased with the amount of fertilizer given to the crop (R. Sylvester-Bradley, personal communication). One reason may lie in this crop s habit of shedding its leaves as harvest approaches, which means that the microbes in the soil get early access to these residues. This habit might contribute to the apparently smaller efficiency of this crop in using nitrogen fertilizer. The crop may be just as efficient as winter wheat at taking up the fertilizer but drops... 

Materials of Construction MIC processes are those processes by which manufactured materials deteriorate through the presence and activities of microbes. These processes can be either direct or indirect. Microbial biodeterioration of a great many materials (including concretes, glasses, metals and their alloys, and plastics) occurs by diverse mechanisms and usually involves a complex community consisting of many different species of microbes. 

In the past, copper was believed to be toxic to most microbiological species. Although this may be true in a test tube under laboratory conditions, it is not generally true in the real world. In this real world, microbial communities excrete slime layers which tend to sequester the copper ions and prevent their contact with the actual microbial cells, Aus preventing the copper from killing the microbes. Many cases of MIC in copper and copper alloys have been documented, especially of heat-exchange tubes, potable water, and fire protection system piping. 

Laboratory tests on samples exposed to actual plant liquids or simulated environments should be done only when testing in the actual operating environment cannot be done. When MIC is a factor in the test, microbial communities from the actual environment of interest must be used. Pure cultures of single types of microbes cannot provide conditions present in the actual operating environment. 

F. T. Gillan and R. W. Hogg, A method for the estimation of bacterial biomass and community structure in mangrove-associated sediments, J. Microb. Methods 2 275 (1984). 

Empiric antibiotic therapy is an appropriate approach to traveler s diarrhea. Eradication of the causal microbe depends on the etiologic agent and its antibiotic sensitivity. Most cases of traveler s diarrhea and other community-acquired infections result from enterotoxigenic (ETEC) or enteropathogenic (EPEC) Escherichia coli. Routine stool cultures do not identify these strains primary empiric antibiotic choices include fluoroquinolones such as ciprofloxacin or levofloxacin. Azithromycin may be a feasible option when fluoroquinolone resistance is encountered. 

Moving from single microorganisms to microbial communities, metals create selection pressure for microbes with cell structures that are less sensitive to metals. For example, mutations may occur that alter metal-binding sites of proteins without rendering the enzyme inactive. Another method for preventing metal toxicity is to produce excess amounts of the target so that there is an insufficient amount of metal to bind to all of the cellular molecules.4 35 53... 

Bioremediation systems in operation today rely on microorganisms indigenous to contaminated sites. The two main approaches, based on the actions of native microbial communities, are biostimulation and intrinsic bioremediation. In biostimulation, the activity of native microbes is encouraged, creating (in situ or ex situ) the optimum environmental conditions and supplying nutrients and other chemicals essential for their metabolism. The vast majority of bioremediation projects are based on this biostimulation approach. Intrinsic bioremediation is a remedial option that can be applied when there is strong evidence that biodegradation will occur naturally over time without any external stimulation i.e., a capable microbial community exists at the site, the required nutrients are available, and the environmental conditions are favorable. An additional prerequisite is that the naturally... 

C.Urzi, Microbes and Art the Role of Microbial Communities in the Degradation and Protection of Cultural Heritage A Report on the International Conference on Microbiology and Conservation, Environmental Microbiology, 1, 551 553 (1999). 

Mummey DL, Stahl PD (2004) Analysis of soil whole- and inner-microaggregate bacterial communities. Microb Ecol 48 41-50... 

Mn2+ active transport system in Staphylococcus aureus. These metal-microbe interactions result in decrease microbial growth, abnormal morphological changes, and inhibition of biochemical processes in individual (Akmal et al. 2005a,b). The toxic effects of metals can be seen on a community level as well. In response to metal toxicity, overall community numbers and diversity decrease. Soil is a living system where all biochemical activities proceed through enzymatic processes. Heavy metals have also adverse effects on enzyme activities (Fig. 1). 

Young JPW (1994) Sex and the single cell the population ecology and genetics of microbes. In Ritz K, Dighton J, Giller KE (eds) Beyond the biomass compositional and functional analyses of soil microbial communities. John Wiley, Chichester, pp 101-107... 

Wu T, Chellemi DO, Graham JH, Martin KJ, Rosskopf EN (2008) Comparison of soil bacterial communities under diverse agricultural land management and crop production practices. Microb Ecol 55 293-310... 

The performance of a biotreatment system ultimately depends on optimization of the activity of microbes and the ability to control the process parameters of the treatment system [157]. In this respect, the ability to monitor gene copy numbers and gene expression is highly useful for real time optimization of the efficiency of a biotreatment system. Advanced molecular techniques as well as low cost methods (e.g., antibody detection of enzymes based on color reaction strips fluorescence i.e., GFP marked organisms with UV light detection) can also be applied to monitor the microbial community structure, persistence of the added bacteria, and their interactions with indigenous populations. 

Geochemists increasingly find a need to better understand the distribution of microbial life within the geosphere, and the interaction of the communities of microbes there with the fluids and minerals they contact. How do geochemical conditions determine where microbial communities develop, and what groups of microbes they contain And how do those communities affect the geochemistry of their environments ... 

In many cases, microbial life in nature develops into zones within which communities are dominated by one or a few functional groups, such as aerobes, sulfate reducers, or methanogens. Distinct zoning is characteristic, for example, of microbial mats (Konhauser, 2007), hot springs (Fouke et al., 2003), marine sediments and freshwater muds (Berner, 1980), contaminated aquifers (Bekins et al., 1999), and pristine groundwater flows (Chapelle and Lovley, 1992). Communities develop as well in laboratory experiments, when microbes are cultivated in pure or mixed culture. 

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