Communication among Phages, Bacteria, and Soil Environments, Stephen Abedon -- Soil Bacteria and Bacteriophages, Robert Armon -- Soil phage ecology: Abundance, Distribution, and Interactions with Bacterial Hosts, Kurt E. Williamson -- Identification and Analysis of Prophages and Phage Remnants in Soil Bacteria, K.V. Srividhya and S. Krishnaswamy -- Back to the Soil: Retroviruses and Transposons, Omar Bagasra, D. Gene Pace -- Ubiquitous Bacteriophage Hosts in Rice Paddy Soil, Makoto Kimura*, Guanghua Wang, Susumu Asakawa -- Phage Biopesticides and Soil Bacteria: Multilayered and Complex Interactions, Antonet Svircev, Susan Lehman, Peter Sholberg, Dwayne Roach, Alan Castle -- Interactions between bacteriophage DinoHI and a network of integrated genetic elements which control virulence in Dichelobacter nodosus, the causative agent of ovine footrot, Brian Cheetham, Gabrielle Whittle, Michael Ting, Margaret Katz -- Gene Network Holography of the Soil Bacterium Bacillus subtilis, Dalit Roth, Asaf Madi, Dror Y. Kenett, Eshel Ben-Jacob -- The Core Genome Concept Applied to Soil Bacteria, Margaret Riley -- Plasmids of Rhizobiaceae and their role in interbacterial and transkingdom interactions, Katherine Pappas, Miguel Cevallos -- Quorum sensing and quorum quenching in soil ecosystems, Yves Dessaux, Emilie Chapelle, Denis Faure -- Integration of cell-to-cell signals in soil bacterial communities, Max Teplitski, Massimo Merighi, Mengsheng Gao, Jayne Robinson -- Beneficial rhizobacteria induce plant growth: mapping signaling networks in Arabidopsis, Huiming Zhang, Mina Aziz, Xitao Xie, Mi-Seong Kim, Xin Shen, Paul W. Paré -- Signal and nutrient exchange in the interactions between soil algae and bacteria, Max Teplitski, Sathish Rajami -- Communication among soil bacteria and fungi, Ilona Pfeiffer -- Microbe-microbe, microbe-plant biocommunication, Ralf Oelmüller, Neeraj Shrivastava, Meghna Pohani, Kailash C Upadhayaya, Irena Sherameti, Paul Murugan, Shashibala Singh and Ajit Varma.      .