Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe

Raquel Peixoto; Christian R Voolstra; Lisa Y Stein; Philip Hugenholtz; Joana Falcao Salles; Shady A Amin; Max Häggblom; Ann Gregory; Thulani P Makhalanyane; Fengping Wang; Nadège Adoukè Agbodjato; Yinzhao Wang; Nianzhi Jiao; Jay T Lennon; Antonio Ventosa; Patrik M Bavoil; Virginia Miller; Jack A Gilbert

doi:10.1093/femsec/fiae144

Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe

FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 2024 Oct 25;100(11):fiae144. doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiae144.

Authors

Raquel Peixoto^{1

2

3}, Christian R Voolstra^{2

4}, Lisa Y Stein^{1

5}, Philip Hugenholtz^{1

6}, Joana Falcao Salles^{1

7}, Shady A Amin^{1

8}, Max Häggblom^{9

10}, Ann Gregory^{1

11}, Thulani P Makhalanyane^{1

12}, Fengping Wang^{1

13}, Nadège Adoukè Agbodjato^{1

14}, Yinzhao Wang^{1

13}, Nianzhi Jiao^{15

16}, Jay T Lennon^{17

18

19}, Antonio Ventosa^{9

20}, Patrik M Bavoil^{9

21}, Virginia Miller^{17

18

22}, Jack A Gilbert^{17

23

24}

Affiliations

¹ International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME), Arnhem, the Netherlands.
² International Coral Reef Society (ICRS), Tavernier, FL, USA.
³ King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
⁴ Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
⁵ University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
⁶ University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
⁷ University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
⁸ New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
⁹ Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS), Cambridge, UK.
¹⁰ Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
¹¹ University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
¹² Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
¹³ Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
¹⁴ Université d'Abomey-Calavi UAC, Abomey Calavi, Benin.
¹⁵ Global Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions (ONCE) Program, Research Center for Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions, Fujian, China.
¹⁶ Xiamen University, Fujian, China.
¹⁷ American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Washington DC, USA.
¹⁸ American Academy of Microbiology (AAM), Washington DC, USA.
¹⁹ Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
²⁰ University of Sevilla, Seville, Spain.
²¹ University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
²² University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
²³ Applied Microbiology International (AMI), Cambridge, UK.
²⁴ University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

Abstract

Injecting H₂ in deep underground to store this energy carrier will produce artificial subsurface lithoautotrophic microbial ecosystems that modify the taxonomic diversity of indigenous microbial communities and their metabolic activities.