Endophytic microorganisms exist within the living tissues of most plant species. They are most abundant in rainforest plants. Novel endophytes usually have associated with them novel secondary natural products and/or processes. Muscodor is a novel endophytic fungal genus that produces bioactive volatile organic compounds (VOCs). This fungus, as well as its VOCs, has enormous potential for uses ...

With the ability to perform a multitude of unique and complex chemical transformations, microorganisms have long been the “workhorses” of many industrial processes. However, in addition to exploiting the utility of naturally evolved phenotypes, the principles, strategies, and tools of synthetic biology are now being applied to facilitate the engineering of tailor-mademicrobes capable of tacklin...

State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources and Dept. of Industrial 4 Microbiology and Biotechnology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of 5 Sciences, Beijing 100101, PR China; Key Laboratory of Agricultural and 6 Environmental Microbiology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of 7 Sciences, Wuhan 430071, People's Republic of China 8 9 Running title 10 GABA uptake system in C....

Within microbiology Raman spectroscopy is considered as a very important whole-organism fingerprinting technique, which is used to characterise, discriminate and identify microorganisms and assess how they respond to abiotic or biotic stress. Enhancing the sensitivity of Raman spectroscopy is very beneficial for the rapid analysis of bacteria (and indeed biological systems in general), where th...

Rhizopus stolonifer is a fungus and one of the most common species of the genus Rhizopus. The organism has been a very important microbe used in the field of industrial microbiology. It has been used in the production of many hydrolytic and extracellular enzymes among which is the α-amylase. This enzyme has found various uses in the industry. Fruit juices are important sources of nutrients and ...