Research Results of NJFU Published in ‘Nature Communications’

Recently, based on research results of Prof. Feng Youzhi’s team of the College of Chemical Engineering, a paper entitled " Eco-evolutionary strategies for relieving carbon limitation under salt stress differ across microbial clades” has been published online in the top international journal ‘Nature Communications’ (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50368-z). Based on metagenomic and amplicon sequencing, this study was conducted to explore the coping strategies of microorganisms in salt-stressed environments at the genetic level. By comparing the genomic traits of four microbial groups in soil, namely, salt-sensitive bacteria, salt-tolerant bacteria, salt-sensitive archaea, and salt-tolerant archaea, including genome size, KEGG pathway, KOs, and specific salt-tolerant and carbon-harvesting functional genes, it was found that bacteria and archaea showed completely opposite ecological evolution directions under salt stress.