This is the first of what is hoped to be a series in which Mr P. Cuttings looks at a group of organisms and tries to decide whether they’ve had a good week, or a bad week. And by way of increasing the intrigue this...
Tag - bacteria
Nigel Chaffey
Potato-associated bacteria can act as bodyguards
Bacteria found with potatoes can help protect their hosts against late blight. The aid comes from their volatile emissions.
Dale Maylea
Phytopathological future for plasma
The fight against pathogens in plants is moving to less familiar states of matter.
Cures: Ancient and Modern…
Ancient medical text books may hold the key to fighting many modern diseases.
Soil microbial community variation correlates most strongly with plant species identity
Soil microbial community variation correlates most strongly with plant species identity.
AoBPLANTS
Another bacterial trick to manipulate plant hormone-mediated responses
A novel example of a bacterial effector directly manipulating core regulators of hormone signaling to facilitate infection.
AJ Cann
What bacteria are in your banana?
Bacteria in innumerable numbers share a deep and integral association with bananas, but show apparently mutualistic benefits with no obvious adverse effect.
COR, nice one, Mr Microbe!
Although open stomata are necessary for plants to take up CO2 for photosynthesis, this also permits loss of precious water – by transpiration, the so-called necessary evil of photosynthesis. But, surely, nothing worse...
Gentamicin and special-purpose antibiotics
Gentamicin is an unusual antiobiotic with two properties that make it particularly useful in plant cell culture: it is autoclavable so is added to media before autoclaving/sterilization, and it is active against...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
Carrot Transformation with Agrobacterium
This videoblog from is about one of the Cell and Developmental Biology practicals that I run at the University of Leicester for course #BS1003. It involves infection of carrot root slices with three strains of...
The Rhizosphere of wild barley across Evolution Canyon
Bacteria and other microorganisms contribute greatly to the Earth’s biomass as they form the bottom of the food chain and orchestrate the cycling of carbon, nitrogen, and flow of other nutrients through the...
