New research has identified crucial components and mechanisms of the plant immune system, potentially helping to develop ...

Plant pests such as bacteria and fungi lead to significant yield losses in agriculture. In order to develop new strategies against such pathogens, understanding the plant's immune response is of ...

Plant pests such as bacteria and fungi lead to significant yield losses ... ”/“CPK5”), which in turn activates the release of reactive oxygen species via the NADPH oxidase (blue). Right: The signal ...

Nitrifiers—including AOA and ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB)—live by oxidizing ... In experiments led by Voland studying proteins from the AOA species Nitrosopumilus maritimus, the ...

Oxidative stress arises from an imbalance between reactive oxygen species (ROS ... that honey can inhibit multi-drug-resistant bacteria like Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

Gum disease, or periodontitis, has been linked to poorer cognitive function. Researchers believe this connection may be due ...

Recent research into bacterial cellulose patches may speed plants' recovery, improve grafting and help with preservation.

Researchers have succeeded in cultivating an ultra-small bacterial strain parasitizing archaea and classified it as new species and genus of Minisyncoccus archaeiphilus.

Using a new method to study how carbohydrates modify proteins, scientists have discovered that gut bacteria can alter molecular signatures in the brain.

When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many microbes — like plants and animals — are organized into species, he upended a long-held scientific belief. Scientists widely believed that bacteria, due to ...