One of the major mechanisms underlying plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) is the lowering of ethylene level in plants by deamination of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) in the environment. In the present study, using ACC as the sole nitrogen source, we screened seven ACC deaminase-producing bacterial strains from rhizosphere soils of tea plants. The strain with the highest ACC deaminase activity was identified as strain JW-CZ2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe pine wood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, is the causal agent of pine wilt disease. Accurately differentiating B. xylophilus from other nematodes species, especially its related species B.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe phenomenon of conflicting gene trees has become a remarkable and difficult problem. Application of multiple genes has been a widespread practice to reconstruct phylogenies in phylogenetic studies. Enolase is a key glycolytic enzyme, The enzymes from a large variety of organisms, including archaebacteria, eubacteria and eukaryotes, were studied.
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