A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in The Netherlands and two in Brazil has discovered how some soil bacteria protect crops against a fungal disease. In their paper published in the journal Science, ...
Scientists from Rutgers University and around the world have discovered an antibiotic produced by a soil bacterium from a Mexican tropical forest that may help lead to a "plant probiotic," more robust plants and other antibiotics.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 8, 2019
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Researchers at McMaster have designed a new way to rapidly identify antibiotics hidden in common dirt.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 16, 2019
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Bacterial DNA sequencing analyses show date palms that are cultivated over a vast stretch of the Tunisian Sahara Desert consistently attract two types of growth-promoting bacteria to their roots, regardless of the location. ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 10, 2019
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A team from The University of Manchester have engineered a common gut bacterium to produce a new class of antibiotics by using robotics. These antibiotics, known as class II polyketides, are also naturally produced by soil ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 19, 2019
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A new study has shown that restoring environments to include a wider range of species can promote "good" bacteria over "bad"—with potential benefits for human health.
Ecology
May 22, 2019
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Soil microbes are wild, unpampered and uncultured.
Cell & Microbiology
May 17, 2019
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New research from the University of East Anglia reveals how soil bacteria build the only known enzyme for the destruction of the potent global warming and ozone-depleting gas nitrous oxide.
Biochemistry
Apr 18, 2019
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Food safety regulations increasingly pressure growers to remove hedgerows, ponds and other natural habitats from farms to keep out pathogen-carrying wildlife and livestock. Yet, this could come at the cost of biodiversity.
Ecology
Mar 19, 2019
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Bacteria isolated from the Saudi desert have demonstrated plant-growth-promoting properties that could make them useful as biofertilizers.
Plants & Animals
Feb 7, 2019
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