Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 30, 2025

ABSTRACT Within-species diversity of microorganisms in food systems significantly shapes community function. While next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods have advanced our understanding microbiomes at the level, it is essential to recognize importance within-species variation for and predicting functional activities these communities. This review highlights substantial observed among microbial species its implications their functionality. We discuss a selection key fermented foods systems, highlighting examples strain-level influence on quality safety. present comprehensive roadmap methodologies aimed uncovering this often overlooked underlying diversity. Technologies like long-read marker-gene or shotgun metagenome offer enhanced resolution communities insights into potential individual strains should be integrated with techniques such as metabolomics, metatranscriptomics, metaproteomics link structure activities. Furthermore, interactions between viruses microbes that contribute strain stability are also critical consider. article existing research emphasizes incorporating studies harness full potential, advance fundamental science, foster innovation.

Язык: Английский