Researchers develop technique to functionally identify and sequence soil bacteria one cell at a time

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IMAGE: A technique to sort and sequence the genome of bacteria in soil one bacterial cell at a time
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Credit: LIU Yang
Researchers from the Single-Cell Center at the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a technique to sort and sequence the genome of bacteria in soil one bacterial cell at a time, while also identifying what its function is in the soil environment.
Their study was published in the journal
mSystems on May 27.
Soil is home to a vast and complex microbiome, which features arguably the highest genomic diversity and widest heterogeneity of metabolic activities of cells on Earth. In turn, these metabolic activities can in principle provide the foundation for industrial production of numerous compounds of value.

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