With rapidly improving sequencing technologies, scientists have recently gained the ability
to examine diverse microbial communities at high genomic resolution, revealing that both …

Bacteria from the genus Pantoea have been reported to be widely distributed in rice paddy
environments with contradictory roles. Some strains promoted rice growth and protected rice …

Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), the causal agent of bacterial blight of rice, employs
the transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs) to induce the expression of the OsSWEET …

In the past 2 decades, progress in molecular analyses of the plant immune system has
revealed key elements of a complex response network. Current paradigms depict the …

Primary biosynthetic enzymes involved in the synthesis of lichen polyphenolic compounds
depsides and depsidones are non-reducing polyketide synthases (NR-PKSs), and …

The isolation of microorganisms from microbial community samples often yields a large
number of conspecific isolates. Increasing the diversity covered by an isolate collection …

Land reclamation may expand the supply of usable land for food security. Immature soil is
not suitable for plant growth and needs to be amended by the addition of organic matter and …

Endophytic strains belonging to the Bacillus cereus group were isolated from the halophytes
Atriplex halimus L.(Amaranthaceae) and Tamarix aphylla L.(Tamaricaceae) from costal and …

In recent decades, microbiologists have discovered an astounding disparity of prokaryotic
life. Our field has identified the most anciently divergent prokaryotic lineages, and we have …

Streptomyces rimosus is best known as the primary source of the tetracycline class of
antibiotics, most notably oxytetracycline, which have been widely used against many gram …