López-Prieto, Alejandro Rodríguez-López, Lorena Rincón-Fontán, Myriam Cruz, José Manuel Moldes, Ana Belén
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The presence of biosurfactants produced by a Bacillus strain in corn steep liquor (CSL), a wastewater stream of the corn milling process, has been recently discovered. However, the species responsible for their production has not been identified at the moment. Therefore, in this work, the Bacillus strain isolated from CSL, with capacity to produce ...
Rajani, P Rajasekaran, C Vasanthakumari, M M Olsson, Shannon B Ravikanth, G Uma Shaanker, R
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Antagonism of plant pathogenic fungi by endophytic fungi is a well-known phenomenon. In plate assays, the antagonism could be due to mycoparasitism, competition for space or antibiosis, involving a chemical diffusate, or a volatile organic compound (VOC). In this study, we demonstrate that besides mycoparasitism, VOCs play a major role in antagonis...
Igiehon, Nicholas O Babalola, Olubukola O Cheseto, Xavier Torto, Baldwyn
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Soybean (Glycine max L.) is among the most economically important legumes that provide more than 1/4 of food (for man) and animal feed. However, its yield is comparatively low, most especially under drought stress. The aim of this study therefore was to assess the ability of Rhizobium spp. and mycorrhizal fungi to enhance the yield, seed size and f...
Al-Taie, Alaa Han, Xiaoxiao Williams, Caroline M Abdulwhhab, Mohamad Abbott, Andrew P Goddard, Alex Wegrzyn, Malgorzata Garton, Natalie J Barer, Michael R Pan, Jingzhe
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Novel sampling matrices were manufactured using 3D printing for the detection of respiratory pathogens in expired air. A specific configuration of the matrices was designed using Computer-Aided Design software. Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) was printed using fused deposition modelling to create a multilayer matrix to enhance the capture of bacteria. The ...
Sun, Pei Li, Xin Yang, Mengdi Zhao, Xueru Zhang, Zhijun Wei, Dongsheng
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Invasive growth of yeast cells into nutrient agar is induced by different stresses and contributes to the survival of yeast cells under several adverse conditions. The mechanism of invasive growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been extensively investigated. However, there is very little information about the mechanism of invasive growth of anothe...
Rocha-Arriaga, Carolina Espinal-Centeno, Annie Martinez-Sánchez, Shamayim Caballero-Pérez, Juan Alcaraz, Luis D Cruz-Ramírez, Alfredo
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The biggest non-tree perennial plant species endemic to Mexico were called metl in the Nahua culture; during colonial times, renamed with the Antillean word maguey. Carl von Linné finally renamed them as Agave, a Greek-Latin root word meaning admirable. Since pre-Columbian times, one of the major products obtained from some Agave species is the fer...
Phour, Manisha Sehrawat, Anju Sindhu, Satyavir Singh Glick, Bernard R
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The rhizosphere is a complex ecosystem around plant roots that comprises an integrated network of plant roots, the microbiome and soil. Wide spread communication between prokaryotes and eukaryotes occurs within this integrated network via a complex set of signal molecules secreted during both beneficial and harmful interactions. Intra- and inter-sp...
do Carmo Dias, Beatriz da Mota, Fabio Faria Jurelevicius, Diogo Seldin, Lucy
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Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF), performed by diazotrophic prokaryotes, is responsible for reducing dinitrogen (N2) present in the biosphere into biologically available forms of nitrogen. Paenibacillus brasilensis PB24 is a diazotrophic Gram-positive bacterium and is considered ecologically and industrially important because it is able to produc...
Ríos-López, A L González, G M Hernández-Bello, R Sánchez-González, A
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Neutrophils are the first cells of the innate immune system that respond to infection by arriving at sites when pathogens have exceeded physical barriers. Among their response mechanisms against pathogens is the release of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), which are composed of deoxyribonucleic acid and antimicrobial proteins such as neutrophi...
D'Apolito, Danilo Arena, Fabio Conte, Viola De Angelis, Lucia Henrici Di Mento, Giuseppina Carreca, Anna Paola Cuscino, Nicola Russelli, Giovanna Iannolo, Gioacchin Barbera, Floriana
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Klebsiella pneumoniae is a Gram-negative bacterium of clinical importance, due to its resistance to several antibiotic classes. We have identified 4 clinical isolates of K. pneumoniae sequence type (ST) 392 KPC-3-producing strains from patients at the Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione (IRCCS-ISMETT), a Souther...
