Compartmentalized metabolic network reconstruction of microbial communities to determine the effect of agricultural intervention on soils.

ABSTRACT: Soil microbial communities are responsible for a wide range of ecological processes and have an important economic impact in agriculture. Determining the metabolic processes performed by microbial communities is crucial for understanding and managing ecosystem properties. Metagenomic approaches allow the elucidation of the main metabolic processes that determine the performance of microbial communities under different environmental conditions and perturbations. Here we present the first compartmentalized metabolic reconstruction at a metagenomics scale of a microbial ecosystem. This systematic approach conceives a meta-organism without boundaries between individual organisms and allows the in silico evaluation of the effect of agricultural intervention on soils at a metagenomics level. To

SUBMITTER: Alvarez-Silva MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5540551 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature