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Dynamic Soil Genes: Time and Neonicotinoid Seed Treatments Affect Agricultural Microbiomes
May 31, 2023
Dr Mona Parizadeh takes us behind the scenes of her latest publication 'Soil microbial gene expression in an agricultural ecosystem varies with time and neonicotinoid seed treatments' published in Microbiology.
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Plant health: an interview with Dr Andrew Armitage
May 23, 2023
In this blog, we caught up with Microbiology Society member Dr Andrew Armitage from the Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, about his work on plant diseases and the importance of plant health.
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Could microbes hold the answer to rising soil salinity?
July 29, 2019
With global soil salinity levels rising, could bacteria hold the answer to stronger plants? Gareth Raynes (@FrndlyBacteria) is a PhD student at Aberystwyth University, UK. At the Early Career Microbiologists' Forum Summer Conference which took place in June, Gareth presented a poster titled 'Exploring Coastal Plants as a Source of Plant Growth Promoting Endophytic Bacteria’. Here, he discusses his research in greater detail, and what he has learned now that he’s nearing the end of his PhD:
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Editor's Choice: A new test to measure treatment of plant diseases
August 9, 2018
Each month, a manuscript published in our flagship journal Microbiology is chosen by a member of the Editorial Board. This month, the paper is Comprehensive screening of antimicrobials to control phytoplasma diseases using an in vitro plant–phytoplasma co-culture system, which was selected by Dr Jennifer Cavet.
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A history of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14
August 6, 2018
This month, the first paper describing Pseudomonas aeruginosa UCBPP-PA14 has been re-printed in the Journal of Medical Microbiology. Pseudomonas aeruginosa UCBPP-PA14 is a unique strain. It can cause severe disease in both plants and animals. Because of this, it is becoming increasingly popular in pathogenesis research.
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New to Science: July 2016
August 10, 2016
A few days later than planned – but here are the highlights from the July issue.
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Archaea and the Tree of Life
May 9, 2016
As part of the latest issue of Microbiology Today, called ‘What is life?’ (published online 10 May), we explore the Archaea. These are microbes that have been around since the beginnings of life on Earth, but were only discovered in the last 40 years.
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New to science: April 2016
April 30, 2016
Each month, the Microbiology Society publishes the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, which details newly discovered species of bacteria, fungi and protists. Here are a few of the new species that have been discovered and the places they’ve been found. The fullpapers are available to journal subscribers, but the abstracts are free to read.
