[{"id":615,"title":"Modified Human Microbiome towards better Health","sha":"3f7760ca8ba7cfaab1e95673d7de30f0","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"Health, as the complete physical, mental and social well-being, is absolutely the vital profit that someone can attain in his/her life span. On the other hand, health is immensely vulnerable to diseases and sicknesses like deadly cancer. Recent studies have proven that human Microbiome is directly related to the diseases and sicknesses encountered by us (Findley et al., 2016: Elinav et al., 2019). However, pathogenic microbes have already been entered and occupied their places in human Microbiome especially due to anthropogenic activities which impact adversely on the environment. Scientists have found that the Microbiome assembling is happening according to a pattern (Pennisi, 2019). In fact, the environment (soil and free-living) gifts a subset of their Microbiome to plants and algae. Thus, the Herbivores get a subset of Microbiome too from plants and algae. Likewise, the Microbiome assembling happens in the food webs. Interestingly, being the ancestor of all other Microbiomes, soil Microbiome plays a major role. It maintains by soil-plant-microbial network interactions. Therefore, reinstating the degraded networks in the soil leads to an enriched Microbiome consisting of least number of pathogens and plenty of beneficial microbes. For that, microbial ameliorators like BFBF can be used (Alori \u0026 Babalola, 2018: Senaviratne \u0026 Kulasooriya, 2013). Ultimately, it leads to improved human health by altering human Microbiome. ","created_at":"2019-09-03T19:25:57.130Z","updated_at":"2019-11-14T00:46:19.361Z","zenodo_id":3445543,"doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3445543","subject":null,"tags":["health","soil","human microbiome","microbial interactions","microbial ameliorates"],"vote_count":1,"view_count":1,"score":1.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":336,"title":"Carbon concentrations in phytoliths and carbon sequestration in soil","sha":"c2ee0d247f8fc516a87f2b0f385c6031","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"In recent years there has been much work on the possibility that carbon could be sequestered in phytoliths and contribute to solving global warming.\u003csup\u003e[1](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02118.x/full), [2](http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11368-016-1527-x)\u003c/sup\u003e There have been a number of calculations of how much is sequestered globally. The crucial figure in these calculations is the concentration of carbon in the phytoliths that is used, so-called phytolith occluded carbon. These figures are derived from phytoliths that have been acid digested or dry ashed at 450-500\u003csup\u003eo\u003c/sup\u003eC. Values vary from less than 0.1% to 6% depending on the technique used. But are any of these measurements realistic? In native unprocessed material the lemma macrohair from *Phalaris canariensis* contained 40% silica, 55%, polysaccharides and 5% proteins.\u003csup\u003e[3](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0176161787800287)\u003c/sup\u003e At maturity these hairs consist entirely of wall material. I know of no data for lumen deposits, which undoubtedly have a higher percentage silica in the native state. Some of the carbon in both cell wall and lumen phytoliths cannot be accessed by hot acid or dry ashing. I suspect that more carbon is inaccessible to breakdown processes in soil than is estimated by our “occluded carbon” determinations. My question is whether these measurements are a good estimate of what is present in soil phytoliths?","created_at":"2016-09-18T13:47:38.507Z","updated_at":"2016-09-19T06:00:20.925Z","zenodo_id":154351,"doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.154351","subject":null,"tags":["carbon","silicon","phytolith","plant","soil"],"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}]