功能基因芯片在土壤微生态研究中的应用

Application of Functional Gene Arrays on Research of the Soil Micro-ecosystem

功能基因芯片是一项以编码各种微生物生理功能的基因为探针的前沿的微阵列技术,这种技术可以对环境样品进行快速、敏感的高通量检测。近年来,功能基因芯片日臻成熟,并在土壤微生态的研究中得到重视和应用,在有关各种生态系统中以及各种污染压力下的土壤微生物群落的结构和功能的研究中提供了大量信息。功能基因芯片的发展将有助于深入研究土壤微生态细节过程,描述微生物群落的生态功能网络,为预测微生物群落对环境压力的响应变化提供理论基础。

Functional Gene Array （FGA） is a cutting-edge microarray technology for rapid, sensitive, and high-throughput detection of environmental samples, which encodes the genes of physiological functions of all microorganisms as the probe. Recently, FGA has been developed to such a degree that it was applied in the researches on the ecology of soil microorganisms. This technology has offered great information about the structure and function of soil microorganism community under different ecological systems and pollution stresses. The development of FGA is beneficial to the understanding of the detailed micro-ecological process and describing the ecological functional networks of microorganisms, which provides the theoretical basis for the prediction of response of microbial community to the environmental stress.