Science news articles about 'soil bacterium'

Researchers from Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin, Australia have found that the soil bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which causes the emerging infectious disease melioidosis in humans ...

BLACKSBURG, Va., June 23 (UPI) -- An international collaboration of scientists has completed the genome sequencing of the Azotobacter vinelandii soil bacterium, U.S. researchers said.

... modified (GM) plants that use Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis), a common soil bacterium, to kill pests won't harm the pests' natural enemies, according to new research by Cornell ...

... it up – metabolized it. They were looking for something to control pollution and discovered this soil bacterium instead," said Robert Skirvin, plant biologist in the Collegeof Agriculture, Consumer ...

... insects are probably affected more by conventional insecticides than by crops that contain genes from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), according to a new article. Bt crops such as ...

... years ago, his lab at Illinois had a breakthrough with the development of a mutant strain of a soil bacterium called Clostridium beijerinckii that produces higher concentrations of butanol when added ...

... for waste water treatment plants or microbial fuel cells. Using a soil bacterium called Bacillus subtilis, Dr Stanley-Wall has investigated the genes and proteins required for biofilms ...

... make the unprecedented observation of paracrine signaling during Bacillus subtilis biofilm formation. The Gram-positive soil bacterium, B. subtilis, relies on quorum sensing and the ...

... resistance, Ramoplanin A2 is an experimental commercial version of an antibiotic first isolated from a soil bacterium in the 1980s and experimentally shown to work against problem pathogens such as ...