The role of the intestinal microbiota in human health is gaining more attention since clear
changes in the composition of the intestinal bacteria or environment are seen in patients …

Heat-resistant fungi are often factors causing spoilage of heat-processed products.
Contamination of agricultural raw materials is often a result of their contact with soil …

Most plants do poorly when flooded. Certain rice varieties, known as deepwater rice, survive
periodic flooding and consequent oxygen deficiency by activating internode growth of stems …

Objectives Bifidobacterium species are one of the major components of the infant's intestine
microbiota. Colonization with bifidobacteria in early infancy is suggested to be important for …

Given the explosive development of new molecular marker techniques over the last decade,
newcomers and experts alike in the field of DNA fingerprinting will find an easy-to-follow …

The broad and vague phenotypic definition allowed the genus Pseudomonas to become a
dumping ground for incompletely characterized polarly flagellated, gram-negative, rod …

This exciting new book describes the use of DNA fingerprinting and its application in a wide
area of plant and fungal research. It presents a thorough theoretical introduction to DNA …

The current application of genome editing to crop plants is limited to cultivars that are
amenable to in vitro culture and regeneration. Here, we report an in planta genome-editing …

In order to clarify the distribution of bifidobacterial species in the human intestinal tract, a
16S rRNA-gene-targeted species-specific PCR technique was developed and used with …

Degradation of lignocellulosic agro-industrial residues by means of complex microbial
community is a promising approach providing efficient biomass decomposition for …