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Chlamyphilone, a Novel Pochonia chlamydosporia Metabolite with Insecticidal Activity

Molecules, 2019
Metabolites from a collection of selected fungal isolates have been screened for insecticidal activity against the aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. Crude organic extracts of culture filtrates from six fungal isolates (Paecilomyces lilacinus, Pochonia ...
Federica Lacatena, Roberta Marra, Pierluigi Mazzei, Alessandro Piccolo, Maria Cristina Digilio, Massimo Giorgini, Sheridan L. Woo, Pierpaolo Cavallo, Matteo Lorito, Francesco Vinale   +9 more
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Ecological and Genomic Attributes of Novel Bacterial Taxa That Thrive in Subsurface Soil Horizons. [PDF]

, 2019
While most bacterial and archaeal taxa living in surface soils remain undescribed, this problem is exacerbated in deeper soils, owing to the unique oligotrophic conditions found in the subsurface.
Arogyaswamy, Keshav, Aronson, Emma L, Billings, Sharon A, Botthoff, Jon K, Brewer, Tess E, Campbell, Ashley N, Dove, Nicholas C, Fairbanks, Dawson, Fierer, Noah, Gallery, Rachel E, Hart, Stephen C, Kaye, Jason, King, Gary, Logan, Geoffrey, Lohse, Kathleen A, Maltz, Mia R, Mayorga, Emilio, O'Neill, Caitlin, Owens, Sarah M, Packman, Aaron, Pett-Ridge, Jennifer, Plante, Alain F, Richter, Daniel D, Silver, Whendee L, Yang, Wendy H   +24 more
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USE OF BIOLOGICAL ORGANIC FERTILIZERS AND PESTICIDES TO IMPROVE POTATO CULTIVATION IN SLOPE ANDISOLS

Biotropia: The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Biology, 2023
In the 1990s, potato yield in the Andisols of Dieng, Central Java, Indonesia, was approximately 30 t ha–1, but this value decreased rapidly to 12–15 t ha–1 in recent years.
Tamad, Loekas Soetanto, Akhmad Rizqul Karim   +2 more
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Editorial: Immunobiotics—Interactions of Beneficial Microbes with the Immune System [PDF]

Frontiers in Immunology, 2017
Julio Villena, Julio Villena, Julio Villena, Haruki Kitazawa, Haruki Kitazawa   +4 more
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The Oral and Skin Microbiomes of Captive Komodo Dragons Are Significantly Shared with Their Habitat. [PDF]

, 2016
Examining the way in which animals, including those in captivity, interact with their environment is extremely important for studying ecological processes and developing sophisticated animal husbandry.
Ashley Shade, Cesar Cardona, Don Boyer, Embriette R. Hyde, Gail Ackermann, Gregory Humphrey, Jack A. Gilbert, Jordan G. Kueneman, Jose A. Navas-Molina, Joseph R. Mendelson, Rob Knight, Se Jin Song, Tom Weaver, Valerie J. McKenzie   +13 more
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Orange Peel Lactiplantibacillus plantarum: Development of A Mucoadhesive Nasal Spray with Antimicrobial and Anti-inflammatory Activity

Pharmaceutics
Background/Objectives: Due to the high frequency and severity of upper respiratory bacterial infections, probiotics could offer a new medical approach. We explored the antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties of the new strain Lactiplantibacillus ...
Elisa Corazza, Asia Pizzi, Carola Parolin, Barbara Giordani, Angela Abruzzo, Federica Bigucci, Teresa Cerchiara, Barbara Luppi, Beatrice Vitali   +8 more
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Spontaneous mutation accumulation in multiple strains of the green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii [PDF]

, 2014
Estimates of mutational parameters, such as the average fitness effect of a new mutation and the rate at which new genetic variation for fitness is created by mutation, are important for the understanding of many biological processes. However, the causes
Adams, Baer, Baer, Baranyi, Barrick, Bateman, Charlesworth, Charlesworth, Crutchfield, Davies, Dickinson, Drake, Fernandez, Fisher, Fry, García-Dorado, Goffeau, Goho, Gong, Haerty, Halligan, Halligan, Hartfield, Joseph, Keightley, Keightley, Keightley, Keightley, Keightley, Keightley, Kibota, Knight, Kondrashov, Koonin, Liss, Loewe, Lukjancenko, Lynch, Lynch, Lynch, Lynch, Massey, Matic, Merchant, Mukai, Mukai, Ness, Otto, R Core Team, Schaack, Schoen, Schrider, Schultz, Sharp, Shaw, Smith, Sokal, Sousa, Sundin, Sung, The Arabadopsis, The C. elegans Sequencing Consortium, Torgerson, Winzeler, Zeyl, Zuur   +65 more
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Beneficial Microbes for Sustainable Crop Production

Agriculture
Microbial communities represent a major component of cultivated soils and are responsible for the successful production of crops [...]
Vlad Stoian, Roxana Vidican
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Cyanobacteria: A precious bio-resource in agriculture, ecosystem and environmental sustainability

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016
Keeping in view the challenges concerning agro-ecosystem and environment, the recent developments in biotechnology offers a more reliable approach to address the food security for future generations and also resolve the complex environmental problems ...
Jay Shankar eSingh, Arun eKumar, Amar Nath Rai, Devendra Pratap Singh   +3 more
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Effects of Trichoderma seedling treatment with System of Rice Intensification management and with conventional management of transplanted rice [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Many benefits of Trichoderma inoculation for improving crop production have been documented, including growth and yield enhancement and the alleviation of biotic and abiotic stresses.
Ram B. Khadka, Norman Uphoff
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