Modern intensive agricultural practices face numerous challenges that pose major threats to
global food security. In order to address the nutritional requirements of the ever-increasing …

Growing environmental concerns are potentially narrowing global yield capacity of
agricultural systems. Climate change is the most significant problem the world is currently …

The rich diversity of secondary metabolites produced by soil bacteria has been appreciated
for over a century, and advances in chemical analysis and genome sequencing continue to …

Global mechanization, urbanization, and various natural processes have led to the
increased release of toxic compounds into the biosphere. These hazardous toxic pollutants …

Iron is an essential nutrient for bacterial growth, replication, and metabolism. Humans store
iron bound to various proteins such as hemoglobin, haptoglobin, transferrin, ferritin, and …

Members of the 'Bacillus subtilis group'include some of the most commercially important
bacteria, used for the production of a wide range of industrial enzymes and fine …

To maintain iron homeostasis within the cell, bacteria have evolved various types of iron
acquisition systems. Ferric iron (Fe3+) is the dominant species in an oxygenated …

Iron deficiency is the most frequent nutritional deficiency in the world with an estimated 1.4
billion people affected. The usual way to fight iron deficiency is iron fortification, but this …

Iron is essential for several vital biological processes. Its deficiency or overload drives to the
development of several pathologies. To maintain iron homeostasis, the organism controls …

Siderophores are chelators with extremely strong affinity for ferric iron and are best known
for their capacity to feed microorganisms with this metal. Despite their preference for iron …