A combined microbiome and cultivation study shows tomato plants selectively recruit stress-adapted rhizobacteria under salinity and drought, yielding 127 isolates with in vitro plant growth-promoting traits.
Calcium (Ca) is essential for plant growth, but too much of it can be toxic. In the karst regions of southwestern China, soils are notoriously rich in calcium—posing a serious challenge for native plants. Now, researchers have uncovered how…
Passion fruit, a tropical crop of growing economic importance, suffers devastating yield losses when unexpected cold snaps hit. Now, researchers have uncovered the molecular strategies that allow some varieties to withstand low temperatures while others wither. By integrating transcriptomic and…
The study, published in BMC Plant Biology, found that callus cultures accumulated biomass rapidly between 15 and 35 days after subculture, while cepharanthine content peaked at 40 days. This developmental timing established the stage at which elicitor and light treatments were subsequently applied.
An integrative study of Camellia species from section Tuberculata synonymizes Camellia zengii with C. lipingensis while confirming C. rhytidocarpa as a distinct species. Botanists studying a group of wild camellias from southern China have settled a decades-old naming dispute with an unusually…
A comparative study finds that the halophyte Schrenkiella parvula regulates toxic reactive carbonyl species more tightly than Arabidopsis under salt stress, with glutathione-S-transferase emerging as the most consistently up-regulated detoxifying enzyme.
A full genome sequence of Acinetobacter lwoffii DJPGP01, isolated from rice rhizosphere soil in India, reveals genes for phosphate solubilisation, auxin synthesis, quorum sensing and stress tolerance, with laboratory testing confirming phosphate mobilisation. News Source: Juliet Wilcox. (October 29, 2026). Rice Soil Bacterium…
A genome-wide survey of 21 Oryza species uncovers three polyphenol oxidase gene types shaped by tandem duplication, frequent truncation, and domestication-linked loss of function. Subject of Research: Evolution of the polyphenol oxidase gene family across Oryza rice species Article Title: Birth…
Researchers have assembled and characterized the complete chloroplast genome of feijoa (Feijoa sellowiana, syn. Acca sellowiana), an economically important fruit tree in the family Myrtaceae. The new data note, published in BMC Genomic Data, describes a dataset intended to fill…
Nitrogen ion beam mutagenesis produced stable Starmerella bombicola mutants, one of which yielded 224.31 g/L of total sophorolipids in a 100-liter bioreactor. Subject of Research: Nitrogen ion beam mutagenesis of Starmerella bombicola to improve sophorolipid production and composition News Source:…
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