Plastic pollution levels have increased rapidly in recent years, due to the accumulation of
plastic waste, including polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Both high production and the lack …

For several decades, laboratory evolution has served as a powerful method to manipulate
microorganisms and to explore long-term dynamics in microbial populations. Next to …

Strain TE3T, an endophytic plant growth promoting bacterium, was isolated from wheat
(Triticumturgidum subsp. durum) sampled in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico. Biochemical …

Dormancy is an adaptation to living in fluctuating environments. It allows individuals to enter
a reversible state of reduced metabolic activity when challenged by unfavorable conditions …

Endospore-forming bacteria are ubiquitous, and their endospores can be present in food, in
domestic animals, and on contaminated surfaces. Many spore-forming bacteria have been …

The genus Bacillus comprises an expansive and diverse set of bacteria distinguished by a
common feature: the ability to make dormant endospores aerobically when challenged with …

Most model bacteria have been domesticated in laboratory conditions. Yet, the tempo with
which a natural isolate diverges from its ancestral phenotype under domestication to a novel …

In any population under selective pressure, a central challenge is to distinguish the genes
that drive adaptation from others which, subject to population variation, harbor many neutral …

Bacterial endospores are exposed to a broad variety of sublethal and lethal stresses in the
food production chain. Generally, these stresses will not completely eliminate the existing …

Root rot disease caused by Fusarium solani is the most devastating disease of the tomato
and legume crops in China. The metabolites of Bacillus species can inhibit many fungal …