{"id":200678,"date":"2024-12-03T05:22:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T11:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/nutrients-related-to-vitamin-b12-influence-microbial-growth-and-reshape-soil-microbiomes-research-finds"},"modified":"2024-12-03T05:22:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T11:22:30","slug":"nutrients-related-to-vitamin-b12-influence-microbial-growth-and-reshape-soil-microbiomes-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/nutrients-related-to-vitamin-b12-influence-microbial-growth-and-reshape-soil-microbiomes-research-finds","title":{"rendered":"Nutrients related to vitamin B12 influence microbial growth and reshape soil microbiomes, research finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nutrients-related-to-vitamin-b12-influence-microbial-growth-and-reshape-soil-microbiomes-research-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Communities of microbes (microbiomes), particularly in soils, can be startlingly diverse, with as many as 10,000 species in just a cup of material. Scientists are working to understand how microbiomes and their members respond to their environments. These processes can profoundly shape the properties and composition of soils.<\/p>\n<p>In a pair of studies published in <i>The ISME Journal<\/i>, researchers investigated how different species of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/microbes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microbes<\/a> interact with one another and exchange resources such as vitamins. The studies focused on corrinoids, the vitamin B12 family of nutrients. Many bacteria in the environment cannot produce these chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>Focusing on a single type of nutrient enables the study of microbiomes in greater detail. The two studies further synergized by focusing on the same California grassland soil, allowing the researchers to generate a framework for understanding <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nutrient+cycling\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nutrient cycling<\/a> in this system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communities of microbes (microbiomes), particularly in soils, can be startlingly diverse, with as many as 10,000 species in just a cup of material. Scientists are working to understand how microbiomes and their members respond to their environments. These processes can profoundly shape the properties and composition of soils. In a pair of studies published in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}