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Molecular Mechanism of Plant–Bacteria Interactions
Over the past few decades, significant progress has been made in understanding the impact of microbes on plant cellular functions and how plants... -
Bacterial communication mediated by T4SS effectors
Bacteria have the ability to inhibit the growth of competitors by using contact-dependent killing devices, such as the bacterial-killing type IV...
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Antagonistic activity of endophytic actinobacteria from native potatoes (Solanum tuberosum subsp. tuberosum L.) against Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum and Pectobacterium atrosepticum
BackgroundThe native potatoes ( Solanum tuberosum subsp. tuberosum L.) grown in Chile (Chiloé) represent a new, unexplored source of endophytes to...
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Recent advances in therapeutic targets identification and development of treatment strategies towards Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections
The opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the causal agent of a wide variety of infections. This non-fermentative Gram-negative...
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Quorum sensing for population-level control of bacteria and potential therapeutic applications
Quorum sensing (QS), a microbial cell-to-cell communication process, dynamically regulates a variety of metabolism and physiological activities. In...
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Bacterial quorum sensing in complex and dynamically changing environments
Quorum sensing is a process of bacterial cell-to-cell chemical communication that relies on the production, detection and response to extracellular...
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Recent Strategies to Combat Multidrug Resistance
Multidrug resistance (MDR) has emerged as one of the most important global health issues of the twenty-first century, posing serious threats to... -
Plant Growth Promoting Phyllobacteria: an Effective Tool for Sustainable Agriculture
AbstractThe phyllosphere, i.e., the above-ground portion of plants, exhibits an ecological niche for a diverse group of microbes, and the...
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Mechanism of drug resistance in bacteria: efflux pump modulation for designing of new antibiotic enhancers
Drug resistance has now become a serious concern in the domain of microbial infection. Bacteria are becoming smarter by displaying a variety of...
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Overexpressed recombinant quorum quenching lactonase reduces the virulence, motility and biofilm formation of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates
The increasing occurrence of resistance among Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates necessitates finding alternatives to antibiotics for...
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Biofouling control and sludge properties promotion through quorum quenching in membrane bioreactors at two aeration intensities
ObjectiveA modified method was used for cell entrapped beads (CEBs) preparation and two aeration intensities (low and high aeration intensity) was...
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Microbial Inoculants in Amelioration of Stress by Regulation of Signalling Cascades in Plant
In agriculture, rapid manipulation and exploitation of PGPR (plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria) is rising rapidly due to vast functionality of... -
Strategies for variable regulation of methanogenesis efficiency and velocity
AbstractCombinations of various strategic approaches to the suppression of methanogenesis and the formation of biogas with a simultaneous decrease in...
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Plant-Microbe Interactions and Crop Production
Plants are living entities that provide food, oxygen, and habitat for other organisms in the environment. Plants, like all living things, require... -
Microbial biofilm: formation, architecture, antibiotic resistance, and control strategies
The assembly of microorganisms over a surface and their ability to develop resistance against available antibiotics are major concerns of interest....
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A new, reliable, and high-throughput strategy to screen bacteria for antagonistic activity against Staphylococcus aureus
BackgroundAntibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones have emerged globally over the last few decades. Probiotics have been actively studied...
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Efficacy of Nanomaterials and Its Impact on Nosocomial Infections
Nanotechnology provides the ability to manipulate the properties of materials by using their size, and this has lead research towards a massive... -
The Bull Effect of Endophytic Fungi: An Approach with Quorum Sensing
Quorum sensing is a cell-to-cell communication process. This microbial communication process depends on the cell number density. Candida albicans is... -
Biocorrosion
The corrosive effect of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) has been known for several decades, and the mechanisms that account for biocorrosion of...