The role of the exopolysaccharides in enhancing hydraulic conductivity of biological soil crusts

By Federico Rossi, Ruth M. Potrafka, F. Pichel, R. De Philippis. 2012

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Environmental Chemistry

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Rhizobacterial-plant interactions: Strategies ensuring plant growth promotion under drought and salinity stress (2016, background): “EPS production by PGPR strains play significant role in supporting plant growth under water (Bensalim et al., 1998) and saline stress conditions, as it forms hydrophilic biofilms colonizing plant roots imparting protection against desiccation (Rossi et al., 2012).”
Complex role of the polymeric matrix in biological soil crusts (2018, methodology): “The analysis was conducted employing twoBSC typologies (described in Rossi et al. 2012c), one collected in the Chihuauan Desert, and one in the Mohave Desert, that were different for relative abundances of species (significant differences in cyanobacterial and proteobacterial relative abundances),…”
Development of the polysaccharidic matrix in biocrusts induced by a cyanobacterium inoculated in sand microcosms (2017, methodology): “The two fractions were extracted slightly modifying the methods reported by De Brower and Stal (2001), Rossi et al. (2012), and Chen et al. (2014).”
Early life on land and the first terrestrial ecosystems (2013, background): “The same applies to other bacteria (e.g., Bacteroidetes and Proteobacteria) that secrete large quantities of mucopolysaccharides, which aid in gluing soil particles together and may also have a critical role in the hydraulic conductivity of the surface substrate (Rossi et al. 2012).”
Bacterial-mediated drought tolerance: Current and future prospects (2016, background): “EPS serve to protect the cell as well as the local environment in which the cell is embedded (Rossi et al., 2012).”