A circular cryptic plasmid named pPAGA (2,734 bp) was isolated from Pantoea agglomerans strain EGE6 (an endophytic bacterial isolate from eucalyptus). Sequence analysis revealed that the plasmid has a ...
Postharvest diseases of fruits and vegetables result in critical losses of production in worldwide. The losses often are caused by fungi and nowadays, most fungal pathogens are controlled by several ...
The seed-bearing capsule of sesame shatters at harvest. This wildish trait makes the crop unsuitable for mechanized harvesting and also restricts its commercial potential by limiting the cultivation ...
Undergraduate microbiology curriculum should be amenable to periodic changes to incorporate new developments and ideas. The curriculum should be used not merely as a way to disseminate facts but also ...
Consanguineous Israeli Bedouin kindred (Figure 1) was clinically and genetically investigated. Clinical data of two deceased individuals (IV8, V10) was not available. The four surviving affected ...
BACKGROUND: The restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) is a common laboratory method for the genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Here, we describe a web-based software, ...
Genomic analysis has revealed heterogeneity among bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequences within a single species; yet the cause(s) remains uncertain. Generalized transducing bacteriophages have recently ...