The main achievements and prospects of soil metagenomy

The monographs discuss the basic theoretical and practical aspects of soil metagenomic - scientific discipline that studies the genetic material of the soil ecosystem using modern molecular biological methods. The book discusses such issues as the composition of the soil metagenoma, the connection of the taxonomic profile of the soil metagenoma with soil micro- and macrostructure, as well as various environmental factors. This work can also be used as a methodological manual, since it contains information on the selection of soil samples, the release of nucleic acids, as well as bioinformation analysis of metagenomic data. Employees of the soil institute named after the monograph. V.V. Dokuchaeva (Moscow) and the All-Russian Research Institute of Agricultural Microbiology (FBIE VNII SCM, St. Petersburg)