The Quercus genus provides a large amount of biomaterial with many applications in fields
like pharmaceutics, cosmetics, and foodstuff areas. Due to the worldwide dissemination of …

Ethnopharmacological relevance Before the advent of modern antibiotics, microbial
infections were treated with herbal medicine or cauterization. Literature from the latter half of …

S. aureus is resistant to various first-line antibiotics, and seeking multifarious strategies
aimed at effective control of antibiotic-resistant behavior is urgently needed. Here, we report …

Antibiotic resistance poses one of the greatest threats to global health today; conventional
drug therapies are becoming increasingly inefficacious and limited. We identified 16 …

Bacterial quorum sensing (QS) is a cell-to-cell communication system that governs the
expression of a large set of genes involved in bacterial–host interactions, including the …

Plants, and the biological systems around them, are key to the future health of the planet and
its inhabitants. The Plant Science Decadal Vision 2020–2030 frames our ability to perform …

Background Tannins have demonstrated antibacterial and antibiofilm activity, but there are
still unknown aspects on how the chemical properties of tannins affect their biological …

Throughout the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the use of botanical dietary supplements in the
United States has increased, yet their safety and efficacy against COVID-19 remains …

The control of microorganisms is a key objective in disease prevention and in medical,
industrial, domestic, and food-production environments. Whilst the effectiveness of biocides …

Quorum sensing (QS) has emerged as a research hotspot in microbiology and medicine. QS
is a regulatory cell communication system used by bacterial flora to signal to the external …