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Carbohydrate-active enzymes from a core root mycobiota member enable infection of multiple plant hosts - Nature Microbiology
1+ hour, 19+ min ago (1625+ words) Nature Microbiology (2026) Cite this article We previously isolated 7 strains of P. cucumerina and 1 strain of P. plurivora from surface-sterilized A. thaliana roots sampled across Europe6. We imported 64 additional strains from 17 collaborators or culture collections, sampled from different hosts and environments across different continents (ee…...
BK Virus Kidney Infection Shows Broad Immune Disruption in Transplant
5+ min ago (686+ words) BK virus-associated nephropathy, a potentially devastating complication of kidney transplantation, has long been recognized as a disorder of immune balance: the immunosuppressive drugs that protect a transplanted kidney from rejection also blunt the antiviral defenses that normally keep this ubiquitous…...
How Virus-Host Protein Interactions Shape Plant Antiviral Defense
34+ min ago (90+ words) Plant viruses are among the most economically damaging pathogens in agriculture, with annual yield losses estimated to exceed 30 billion dollars worldwide. Because viruses replicate exclusively inside living host cells, conventional chemical treatments are largely ineffective, leaving genetic improvement of virus…...
Protoplast Transfection Unlocks Rapid Engineering of Heat-Loving Phage
1+ hour, 58+ min ago (55+ words) Thermophilic bacteriophages occupy a curious corner of virology. They infect bacteria that thrive at temperatures where most life struggles, and their molecular machinery has evolved to withstand conditions that would dismantle ordinary viruses. One of the oldest and best studied…...
Epigenetic Switch Revealed: How DNA Methylation Shapes a Seedling’s
2+ hour, 18+ min ago (496+ words) When a tiny seedling first breaks through the soil, it faces one of the most dramatic developmental decisions in biology. In darkness, it grows long and pale, stretching its embryonic stem, the hypocotyl, upward in a desperate search for light....
Antarctic Fungi Found in Historic Whaling Station Wood Offer Cold-Active
2+ hour, 18+ min ago (785+ words) Deep in the frozen ruins of Whalers Bay on Deception Island, one of the most storied locations in maritime Antarctica, scientists have uncovered a thriving hidden community of fungi living inside the decaying remnants of a century-old whaling station....
Chimera Crayfish With Two Genomes Stuns Scientists Studying Hybrid
2+ hour, 56+ min ago (575+ words) In a discovery that reads like something out of a biology textbook’s strangest chapter, researchers in China have documented a genuine chimera in the hybrid offspring of the red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii). The animal, described in a case study…...
Plants and Microbes Emerge as Green Factories for Making Nanoparticles
2+ hour, 56+ min ago (90+ words) Nanoparticles have quietly become one of the most transformative tools in modern science, powering everything from cancer therapies to water purifiers. Yet the way most of them are made has long been an environmental liability. Conventional synthesis routes rely on…...
Molecular Switch Team Discovered That Decides When Rice Seeds Wake Up
3+ hour, 33+ min ago (27+ words) Bioengineer.org Subject of Research: Rho GTPase signaling regulation of rice seed germination and aleurone layer development...
Chemical Tags on Viral RNA Emerge as a Battleground Between Plants and
3+ hour, 59+ min ago (83+ words) A chemical mark long known to fine-tune plant growth and development has turned out to play a far more dramatic role in agriculture than previously appreciated. N6-methyladenosine, or m6A, the most abundant internal modification found in eukaryotic messenger RNAs, is now…...