Microbial Interactions & Microbial Ecology

Microbial diversity is an unseen national resource. Microbial diversity establishes variability among all kinds of microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, viruses) within the plants. Microorganisms are vital sources of data regarding the methods and limits of life, and that they play a crucial role in the sustainability of life on our planet, microbial diversity within the human intestine represents an anaerobic bioreactor programmed with a huge population of microorganism, dominated by relatively few divisions that are extremely numerous at the strain/subspecies level.

 

The microbial world encompasses most of the phylogenetic diversity on Earth, as all Bacteria, all Archaea and most lineages of the Eukarya are microorganisms.

Sequencing of microbial DNA isolated from natural environments (environmental genomics, metagenomics) has revealed the existence of a tremendous variety of yet uncultured microorganisms, showing that the true microbial diversity in nature is much higher than currently recognized on the basis of organisms studied in culture