Sofie Thijs

TL;DR: A competition-driven model is discussed, based on recent evidence from the metagenomics level, and hypotheses generated by microbial community ecology, to explain the establishment of a catabolic rhizosphere microbiome in a contaminated soil, which indicates four strategies to interfere with the microbiome.

TL;DR: The potential of PGPR to facilitate plant growth is of fundamental importance, especially in case of abiotic stress, where bacteria can support plant fitness, stress tolerance, and/or even assist in remediation of pollutants.

TL;DR: Insilico evaluation of four bacterial primers for characterizing complex microbial communities in explosives contaminated and non-contaminated forest soil and by in silico evaluation against the current SILVA123 database suggests the high utility of primer pair 341f/785r for soil and plant-associated bacterial microbiome studies.

TL;DR: It is shown that primer pair 799F-1391R outperforms all other primer pairs in the study of the bacterial microbiomes present in the rhizosphere soil, root, stem and leaf endosphere of field-grown poplar trees and in the elimination of non-target DNA and retrieval of bacterial OTUs.

TL;DR: Overall, microorganisms in the rhizosphere seem to play an important role when evaluating the fate and effects of silver nanoparticle exposure in soil, and not only is the nanosilver response different for bacteria and fungi, but also for bulk and Rhizosphere soil.