From this, 1 mL of active inoculum was again transferred to fresh MSM containing 1% crude oil and was used for the isolation of crude oil degrading bacteria by serial dilution technique followed by ...

The soil was collected and preserved in the sterilized bags at 4 °C till further analyses. Serial dilution was performed for the isolation of bacterial strains, where the nutrient agar plates amended ...

Biofilms are clusters of microorganisms that stick to non-biological surfaces, such as rocks in a stream, as well as to surfaces on plants (roots) or in animals (epithelium). These clusters are ...

The appearance of a yellow-to-orange color indicates ammonium production. Regarding the assay for siderophore production, CAS dye and nutrient agar were separately autoclaved and mixed before pouring.

These include Klebsiella [9] isolated from a gold mine soil, Thiobacillus [10] isolated from the activated sludge used for the treatment of wastewater from a coke-oven factory, Acinetobacter and ...

Phosphorus (P) is an essential nutrient for plant growth ... capacity of the transgenic plants by using a nondestructive agar technique in which bromocresol purple was used as pH indicator ...

Graphical Abstract. TOC: A photosensitizer complex (PSC) was developed to kill the pathogen for citrus canker, Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri, under sunlight irradiation, using reactive oxygen species ...

You’ve undoubtedly heard the term “empty calories.” This expression is derived from the concept that a variety of foods prevalent in the American diet are high in calories but low in nutrients. These ...

Cactus fruit may look intimidating, but once you get past its spiny outsides, it yields a mild and nutrient-rich flesh. This fruit is delicious eaten raw, added to recipes, or turned into a ...

Phages (bacterial viruses) are the most numerous biological entities, and their genomes consist of single- or double-stranded DNA or RNA. Seawater contains up to 10 7 DNA phage particles per ...