Chapter 1 introduces readers to the soil microbiome, and chapter 2 discusses the belowground microbial world. Chapter 3 addresses various methods for exploring microbial diversity, chapter 4 discusses the genomics methods, and chapter 5 provides the metaproteomics and metatranscriptomics approached for exploring the microbial world. Chapter 6 details the bioinformatics tools for soil microbial community analysis, and chapter 7concludes the text with future perspectives on further soil microbial uses and applications.  weiterlesen