Abstract
BIODESERT: exploring and exploiting the microbial resource of hot and cold deserts.
Highlights
This special issue contains one review and eight research articles that address the three main aspects indicated above
With the global climate change, the aridification and creeping desertification that constitute a worldwide serious threat directly affecting agriculture and crop production, and the growing food demands, desert microorganisms could hold the key for green biotechnology and future applications into soil bioreclamation and plant growth promotion for vulnerable regions across the world
This special issue was focused on the desert microbial resource management (MRM) and how to explore and exploit these resources from hot and cold deserts as well as from arid areas
Summary
An amazing microbial diversity and a huge biotechnological potential were unraveled during the last decade using molecular approaches. Hot and cold deserts were shown to host peculiar microbial assemblages able to cope with hostile environment and/or to rapidly adapt to changing conditions.
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