The Fungal Root Endophyte () Enhances Bread and Durum Wheat Performance under Boron Toxicity at Both Vegetative and Generative Stages of Development through Mechanisms Unrelated to Mineral Homeostasis.

While the importance of beneficial soil microorganisms for soil health and crop performance has been receiving ever-increasing attention, has been widely studied as a fungal root endophyte with significant potential for increasing the stress tolerance of host plants. Boron (B) toxicity as an adverse soil condition is particularly prevalent in arid and semi-arid regions and threatens crop production. Studies on -wheat symbiosis are limited, and effects of on crops have never been reported in the context of B toxicity.

Polyhydroxyalkanoate accumulation in Streptomyces coelicolor affected by SCO7613 gene region.

Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) is stored as an important carbon and energy source in bacterial cells. For biomedical applications, gram-positive bacteria can be better sources of PHAs, since they lack outer membrane lipopolysaccharide. Although gram-positive A3(2) has been indicated as a high potential PHA producer, C gene that encodes the key enzyme PHA synthase in the metabolic pathway is not determined in its genome.

Overexpression of polyphosphate kinase gene (ppk) increases bioinsecticide production by Bacillus thuringiensis.

Polyphosphate (polyP), synthesized by polyP kinase (PPK) using the terminal phosphate of ATP as substrate, performs important functions in every living cell. The present work reports on the relationship between polyP metabolism and bioinsecticide production in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis (Bti).