The genus Shewanella has been studied since 1931 with regard to a variety of topics of
relevance to both applied and environmental microbiology. Recent years have seen the …

The demand for microbially produced surface‐active compounds for use in industrial
processes and products is increasing. As such, there has been a comparable increase in the …

Seeds carry complex microbial communities, which may exert beneficial or deleterious
effects on plant growth and plant health. To date, the composition of microbial communities …

Fusarium graminearum causes Fusarium head blight (FHB), a devastating disease that
leads to extensive yield and quality loss of wheat and barley. Bacteria isolated from wheat …

Phylogenetic analysis of the genus Pseudomonas was conducted by using the combined
gyrB and rpoD nucleotide sequences of 31 validly described species of Pseudomonas (a …

The Bacillus subtilis group comprises eight closely related species that are indistinguishable
from one another by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. Therefore, the gyrB gene, which …

There is a need for easy, practical, reliable and robust techniques for the identification and
classification of bacterial isolates to the species level as alternatives to 16S rRNA gene …

Apple replant disease (ARD) is a common problem in major apple planting areas, and
biological factors play a leading role in its etiology. Here, we isolated the bacterial strain …

A new generation of functional gene arrays (FGAs; GeoChip 3.0) has been developed,
with∼ 28 000 probes covering approximately 57 000 gene variants from 292 functional …

Ecological studies on three bacterial lineages symbiotic in aphids have shown that they
impose a variety of effects on their hosts, including resistance to parasitoids and tolerance to …