rice paddy metagenome Transcriptome

We hypothesized that salt stress would lead to changes in both structure of the microbial community and its functional diversity, and that this effect would be closely related to the physiological status of the microbial community and their individual populations. To investigate whether the physiological status of the microbial community or individual microorganisms will affect its or their ability to cope with salt stress in an anoxic model soil system.