Soil Microbiology

Soil Microbiology

and strong emphasis are given to the role of gravity as a major designing agent of body structures. The author refutes the widely held idea that man gained his upright posture through an intermediate period of semi-erectness as may be observed in the gorilla and other anthropoid apes. This latter he regards as a reversion from the arboreally acquired vertical body posture of the primitive brach...

Soil Biology and Microbiology

Soil Microbiology as a Field of Science.

It can now be definitely recognized that the soil microbiologist is in a position to make important contributions not only to our knowledge of soil processes and plant growth, but also to microbiology, especially microbial physiology, and to the utilization of microorganisms for various industrial, public health and other processes. The soil microbiologist is able to contribute in many ways to ...

Exploring research frontiers in microbiology: the challenge of metagenomics in soil microbiology.

Soil is one of the most complex and challenging environments for microbiologists. In fact, although it contains the largest microbial diversity on the planet, the majority of these microbes are still uncharacterized and represent an enormous unexplored reservoir of genetic and metabolic diversity. Metagenomics, the study of the entire genome of soil biota, currently represents a powerful tool f...

Microbiology. Weapons of microbial drug resistance abound in soil flora.

F ollowing the serendipitous discovery of penicillin in 1928 and streptomycin in 1943, the pharmaceutical industry has been screening thousands of soil samples for antimicrobial agents produced by inhabitant microbes. Chloramphenicol, clavulanic acid, erythromycin, gentamicin, rifampin, teicho-planin, tetracycline, and vancomycin represent only a few products of this spectacularly successful ef...