After several decades of use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in weed killers such as
Roundup, in fields, forests, and gardens, the biochemical pathway of transformation of …

Bacteria navigate their way often as individual cells through their chemical and biological
environment in aqueous medium or across solid surfaces. They swim when starved or in …

Background One of the most promising technologies to sustainably produce energy and to
mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from combustion of fossil energy carriers is the …

Background Decomposition of biomass for biogas production can be practiced under wet
and dry fermentation conditions. In contrast to the dry fermentation technology, wet …

Bacteriophages (phages) are the most abundant biological entities in the biosphere. As
viruses that solely infect bacteria, phages have myriad healthcare and agricultural …

Background Rhizobium tropici CIAT 899 and Rhizobium sp. PRF 81 are α-Proteobacteria
that establish nitrogen-fixing symbioses with a range of legume hosts. These strains are …

The chemotaxis signal transduction network regulates the biased random walk of many
bacteria in favorable directions and away from harmful ones through modulating the …

The legume tribe Genisteae comprises 618, predominantly temperate species, showing an
amphi-Atlantic distribution that was caused by several long-distance dispersal events …

The definition of bacterial species is based on genomic similarities, giving rise to the
operational concept of genomic species, but the reasons of the occurrence of differentiated …

Background The classic AOX1 replacement approach is still one of the most often used
techniques for expression of recombinant proteins in the methylotrophic yeast Pichia …