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Bioactivity Screening of Hydrolysates From Brown Crab Processing Side Streams Fermented by Marine Pseudoalteromonas Strains
This study aims to employ five marine Pseudoalteromonas strains, belonging to Psa. arctica DSM 18437T, Psa. carrageenovora DSM 6820T, Psa. issachenkonii LMG 19697T, Psa. rubra DSM 6842T and Psa. tunicata DSM 1409...
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Quantification of Extracellular Proteases and Chitinases from Marine Bacteria
A total of 92 marine bacteria belonging to Pseudomonas, Pseudoalteromonas, Psychrobacter, and Shewanella were first screened for their proteolytic activity. In total, four Pseudomonas strains belonging to Ps. flu...
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Compost is a carrier medium for Trichoderma harzianum
Trichoderma spp. are one of the most commercialized fungal biocontrol agents. To improve its applicability, while preserving its effectiveness against diseases, a selection of composts were tested as carrier medi...
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Open AccessDaring to be differential: metabarcoding analysis of soil and plant-related microbial communities using amplicon sequence variants and operational taxonomical units
Microorganisms are not only indispensable to ecosystem functioning, they are also keystones for emerging technologies. In the last 15 years, the number of studies on environmental microbial communities has inc...
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Open AccessTap** into the maize root microbiome to identify bacteria that promote growth under chilling conditions
When maize (Zea mays L.) is grown in the Northern hemisphere, its development is heavily arrested by chilling temperatures, especially at the juvenile phase. As some endophytes are beneficial for plants under str...
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Agricultural waste amendments improve inundation treatment of soil contaminated with potato cyst nematodes, Globodera rostochiensis and G. pallida
Potato cyst nematodes (PCN), Globodera rostochiensis and G. pallida, are major constraints to potato production. They are distributed passively with soil adhering to farm machinery and harvested tubers, but also ...
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Open AccessBiochar-amended potting medium reduces the susceptibility of rice to root-knot nematode infections
Biochar is a solid coproduct of biomass pyrolysis, and soil amended with biochar has been shown to enhance the productivity of various crops and induce systemic plant resistance to fungal pathogens. The aim of...
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Real-time PCR mediated monitoring of Fusarium foetens in symptomatic and non-symptomatic hosts
Fusarium foetens is a recently described aggressive vascular pathogen of Begonia x hiemalis. Since 2004, it has caused severe losses for Begonia growers in Northern Europe and North Ameri...
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Characterisation of fungal pathogens causing basal rot of lettuce in Belgian greenhouses
Basal rot is a common disease in lettuce greenhouses. A 3-year study on the diversity of pathogens associated with basal rot in Belgium was carried out. A total of 150 isolates were collected originating from ...
