Project description:During growth in their ecological niche fungi encounter many (micro)organisms that compete for nutrients and /or have antagonistic activity. However, little is known about responses of fungi upon exposure to other microbes. In this project we want to gain insight in induced responses of C. cinerea towards bacteria through comparison of the transcriptome of vegetative C. cinerea mycelium either grown alone or exposed to the bacterial species Escherichia coli or Bacillus subtilis
Project description:Metagenomics analysis reveals co-infection of fungi and bacteria isolated from different regions of brain tissue from elderly persons and patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Project description:Microbes play key roles in diverse biogeochemical processes including nutrient cycling. However, responses of soil microbial community at the functional gene level to long-term fertilization, especially integrated fertilization (chemical combined with organic fertilization) remain unclear. Here we used microarray-based GeoChip techniques to explore the shifts of soil microbial functional community in a nutrient-poor paddy soil with long-term (21 years).The long-term fertilization experiment site (set up in 1990) was located in Taoyuan agro-ecosystem research station (28°55’N, 111°27’E), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hunan Province, China, with a double-cropped rice system. fertilization at various regimes.
