Janet K Jansson

Sep 20, 2024 | nature.com | Janet K Jansson

Correction to: Nature Reviews Microbiology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-023-00953-8, published online 27 July 2023. In the version of this article initially published, the copyright line appeared incorrectly and has now been updated to “Battelle Memorial Institute under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited” in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

Nov 22, 2023 | nature.com | Ruonan Wu |William Nelson |Montana Smith |Janet K Jansson |Jason McDermott

AbstractBacteriophages are abundant in soils. However, the majority are uncharacterized, and their hosts are unknown. Here, we apply high-throughput chromosome conformation capture (Hi–C) to directly capture phage-host relationships. Some hosts have high centralities in bacterial community co-occurrence networks, suggesting phage infections have an important impact on the soil bacterial community interactions.

Oct 30, 2023 | nature.com | Janet K Jansson |Robert G. Egbert

AbstractRecent advances in microbial ecology and synthetic biology have the potential to mitigate damage caused by anthropogenic activities that are deleteriously impacting Earth’s soil ecosystems. Here, we discuss challenges and opportunities for harnessing natural and synthetic soil microbial communities, focusing on plant growth promotion under different scenarios.

Oct 26, 2023 | mdpi.com | Montana Smith |Karl K. Weitz |Allison Thompson |Janet K Jansson

1. IntroductionRewetting of dry soil has a significant impact on soil organic carbon and nitrogen pools [,,]. When soil has undergone a prolonged drying event or drought, the soil microbial community responds in several ways upon rewetting []. There is often a rapid increase in decomposition and mineralization of soil organic matter (SOM) over the first ½ hour to 24 h depending on the sampling timing, which declines within the first 4 weeks [,,].

Jul 27, 2023 | nature.com | Janet K Jansson

The forthcoming UN summit marks the halfway point to 2030 and presents an important milestone in global efforts to address various challenges, including those related to climate change and environmental preservation. The UN SDGs include several related to microorganisms and climate change. Microbiology research is key to understanding and mitigating climate change, and in maintaining the health of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems (SDGs 13, 14 and 15).