The microbial diseases cause significant damage in agriculture, resulting in major yield and
quality losses. To control microbiological damage and promote plant growth, a number of …

The plant-associated microbiome is a key component of plant systems, contributing to their
health, growth, and productivity. The application of machine learning (ML) in this field …

Drought conditions pose significant challenges to sustainable agriculture and food security.
Identifying microbial strains that can mitigate drought effects is crucial to enhance crop …

Heavy metals can be found in soil as natural components or as product of contaminations
events; plants growing in soils are prone to bioaccumulate heavy metals on their biomass …

The bio-electron behavior (electron production, transmission, and consumption) response to
a typical heavy metal, hexavalent chromium, was unraveled in the electron donor limited …

Pollen is a vector for diversification, fitness-selection, and transmission of plant genetic
material. The extent to which the pollen microbiome may contribute to host diversification is …

There is increasing interest in harnessing the microbiome to improve cropping systems. With
the availability of high—throughput and low—cost sequencing technologies, gathering …

Maize (Zea mays) requires substantial amounts of nitrogen, posing a challenge for its
cultivation. Recent work discovered that some ancient Mexican maize landraces harbored …

Despite the widespread implementation of pneumococcal vaccines, hypervirulent
Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 19A is endemic worldwide. It is still unclear whether …

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are widely used in the food industry, but little is known about their
population genomics, hindering our understanding of their genetic background and …