[{"id":191,"title":"Developed microbial communities in biofilm mode: the key for reinstating degraded ecosystems","sha":"544268b97815e94eb18a26e925a7f697","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"In conventional scientific approaches, degraded ecosystems (e.g. conventional agroecosystems due to tillage and high doses of chemical inputs) are attempted to be revived mainly through nutrients, organic matter and water management. However, they do not provide a complete answer to the issue of sustainability of the ecosystems. It is now reported that sustainability of the ecosystems is an outcome of chemical signaling in the food web, in which microbes have got the central role to play (Seneviratne, 2015). Now, it is also known that developed microbial communities in biofilm mode and their exudates contribute more than their monoculture microbes in reinstating sustainability of the degraded ecosystems through increased biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.\r\n\r\nThe same concept can be applied to human body ecosystem. It is reported that the intake of antimicrobials like antibiotics is harmful to the human health. Sometimes, people use Probiotics after intake of antibiotics. They are mixtures of beneficial gut bacteria, but not in biofilm mode. Thus, in future medicines, developed microbial communities in biofilm mode and their exudates should be adopted for treating ailments. Then, they would help increase native biodiversity of gut bacteria, thus resulting in enhanced functioning of human body ecosystem for a healthy life.\r\n","created_at":"2015-07-15T14:05:09.570Z","updated_at":"2015-07-21T06:00:28.480Z","zenodo_id":37770,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20739","subject":null,"tags":["microbiology","illness","sustainability","antibiotics","drugs","crop productivity"],"vote_count":0,"view_count":1,"score":0.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":true,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":183,"title":"Dinitrogen fixing moderately halo-alkaliphilic microorganisms as a crop productivity enhancer","sha":"99df07358eaec7209e30b842582f3b64","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"Electrical conductivity of Sea water and saline soil is above 4 dS/m (Cox et al., 1970; Sehgal, 1980). The high pH and high salinity reduced metabolic rates of dinitrogen (N2) fixing bacteria which lowered or stopped N2 fixation activity. This indicates that native beneficial microorganisms inhabiting soil either under stress or inhibited. The moderately halo-alkaliphilic microorganisms such as Bacillus (Zehran et al., 2007), Nostoc, Microcystis, Oscillatoria, Anabaena, Synechococcus (Zhang and Feng, 2008), Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus PAL5 (Boniolo et al., 2009), Pseudomonas, Halorhodospira, Ectothiorhodospira, Bradyrhizobium, Agrobacterium, Amorphomonas Azohydromonas, Azospirillum, Ideonella (Yousuf et al., 2014) and Melilotus officinalis having the best growth and proliferation rate and have inherent ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen at varying pH (7-11), moderate salt (5-20%) concentration and electrical conductivity (1.7 and 20 dS/m) (Bruning et al., 2015). These microorganisms have potential applications in agriculture and help to conserve soil texture. Additionally, these microorganisms, improve disease resistance capacity of crop plants. Thus, these promising species can be used for sustainable agriculture in temperate regions and have great importance in the improvement of agriculture yields.","created_at":"2015-06-30T10:13:12.661Z","updated_at":"2015-07-29T16:22:28.943Z","zenodo_id":33874,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19156","subject":null,"tags":["haline niterogen fixer","alkalophilic microorganisms","crop productivity","saline agriculture"],"vote_count":1,"view_count":1,"score":1.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":true,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null}]