Functional Microbiota
A special issue of BioTech (ISSN 2673-6284).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2020) | Viewed by 188
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Throughout history, even without realizing it, human wellness has relied on the efficient function of unknown and uncharacterized communities of microorganisms always present in essential processes of life. With a strong social metabolic network, microbial communities impact apparently disparate activities extending from crop production, beverage manufacturing, environmental remediation, industrial processes, to even human physiology itself. For numerous reasons like these, the interest in characterizing the composition of many functional microbiotas has been a seminal issue fueling the development of many techniques from classic microbiology to the powerful contemporary high-throughput DNA sequencing approaches, all of them with the same interest: to find out who is there and doing what.
This Special Issue on “Functional Microbiota” invites the submission of top-quality research work as likes yours that focuses on deciphering the diversity found in all those exciting active microbiota, which carry fundamental processes in an orderly, efficient, and interesting manner. Please share your fascinating findings through us and unveil your new Functional Microbiota knowledge.
Dr. Jaime García-Mena
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Microbiota
- Bioremediation
- Biotechnology
- Crops
- Food technology
- Diseases
- Natural probiotics
- High-throughput DNA sequencing
- Metabolic pathways
- Microbiomes
- Energy production
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