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Xin Fu, Hui Liu, Xiao Xu, Jin Guo, Shaojing Hu, Yinwei You and Long Zhang
Biological control methods provide a sustainable approach for reducing agricultural losses caused by locust plagues. Space mutagenesis can generate high numbers of mutations using satellites and spacecrafts, including beneficial and stable mutants. Asper...
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Luis J. Amaro Leal, Arturo Huerta de la Peña, Ignacio Ocampo Fletes, Pedro Antonio López, Nemesio Villa-Ruano and Omar Romero-Arenas
Leafcutter ants (Atta spp.) are one of the mos t economically harmful pests in agriculture, considered dominant in the Neotropics and South America. Mature colonies of A. mexicana have a great economic impact on Mexico?s agriculture. Microbial agents in ...
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Agnieszka Wiszniewska-Laszczych, Joanna Szteyn, Marta Soltysiuk, Jaroslaw Kowalik and Monika Modzelewska-Kapitula
The prevalence of staphylococci in the environment of humans, including food, may lead to the production of toxins and food poisoning in consumers. Additionally, staphylococci constitute a reservoir of genes determining antibiotic resistance. The study a...
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Waleed S. Alwaneen, Waqas Wakil, Nickolas G. Kavallieratos, Mirza Abdul Qayyum, Muhammad Tahir, Khawaja G. Rasool, Mureed Husain, Abdulrahman S. Aldawood and David Shapiro-Ilan
The red palm weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) (Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae), is a destructive and voracious pest of palm species worldwide. Due to environmental and regulatory concerns, ecologically safe alternatives to synthetic chemical...
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Jamilah Borjac, Wafaa Zeino, Alaa Matar, Salwa Khawaja, Maxime Merheb and Rachel Matar
Safe, accessible, and good water quality are essential characteristics for reducing various waterborne diseases. Since domestic water is the water most consumed by Lebanese people, cleaning household water tanks is important to prevent their exposure to ...
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Jaime Nolasco Rodríguez-Vázquez, Karim Ammar, Ignacio Solís and Fernando Martínez-Moreno
Effective mitigation of the current threat from yellow rust and the potential threat from stem rust to wheat production in the south of Spain requires the characterization of the lineages/races currently present in the region. Results from this study cle...
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Edamkue Israel, Selvarajan Ramganesh, Akebe Luther King Abia and Chioma Blaise Chikere
The marine environment possesses diverse and complex characteristics, representing a significant challenge for microbial survival. Therefore, bacteria must develop adaptive mechanisms to thrive in such environments. Quorum sensing (QS), a well-establishe...
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Edgar Enriquez-Gómez, Jorge Acosta-Dibarrat, Martín Talavera-Rojas, Edgardo Soriano-Vargas, Armando Navarro, Rosario Morales-Espinosa, Valente Velázquez-Ordoñez and Luis Cal-Pereyra
Sheep represent one of the main reservoirs of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli; this microorganism is an etiological agent of food-borne diseases; therefore, this work aimed to identify and characterize the principal pathotypes of diarrheagenic E. coli (DE...
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Sara Sá, Ruben Fernandes, Álvaro Gestoso, José Mário Macedo, Daniela Martins-Mendes, Ana Cláudia Pereira and Pilar Baylina
Cutibacterium acnes (C. acnes) is a Gram-positive anaerobic facultative bacterium that is part of the human skin commensal microbiome. It colonizes various regions of the body, including the face, back, and chest. While typically a harmless commensal, un...
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Alnakhli Naseer, Salman Mo, Steven C. Olsen and Brian McCluskey
Background: Brucella melitensis is recognized as one of the predominant zoonotic pathogens globally. Live-attenuated vaccine Rev 1 is currently the most effective vaccine for controlling B. melitensis in small ruminants. While Brucella inactivated, nanop...
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