BACKGROUND Phytopathogenic fungi affecting crop and post-harvested vegetables are a major threat to food production and food storage. To face these drawbacks, producers have become increasingly dependent on agrochemicals. However, intensive use of these compounds has led to the emergence of pathogen resistance and severe negative environmental impacts. There are also a number of plant diseases ...

Bacillus subtilis Miz-8 is isolated from Bekang, a traditional fermented soybean food of Mizoram, India. Here, we report computationally analyzed strain mapped to the annotated genome reference subsp. natto BEST195. has circular chromosome and small plasmid with size 4105264 bp 5838 bp, respectively. Genome contains genes responsible for synthesis biosynthetic metabolites like surfactin, fengyc...

The bacterial strain LZN01 is a potential biocontrol agent that produces myriocin and inhibits the growth of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum (Fon). To characterize LZN01, Illumina HiSeq + PacBio sequencing platform was used to sequence its genome. Unicycler software perform genome assembly antiSMASH predict gene clusters responsible for secondary metabolite biosynthesis. comprises 3973236 bp h...

In host-pathogen interactions, the struggle for iron may have major consequences on the outcome of the disease. To overcome the low solubility and bio-availability of iron, bacteria have evolved multiple systems to acquire iron from various sources such as heme, hemoglobin and ferritin. The molecular basis of iron acquisition from heme and hemoglobin have been extensively studied; however, very...

Proteome analysis of Bacillus subtilis cells grown at low and high salinity revealed the induction of 16 protein spots and the repression of 2 protein spots, respectively. Most of these protein spots were identified by mass spectrometry. Four of the 16 high-salinity-induced proteins corresponded to DhbA, DhbB, DhbC, and DhbE, enzymes that are involved in the synthesis of 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate (...

Bacterial transcription factors often function as DNA-binding proteins that selectively activate or repress promoters, although the biochemical mechanisms vary. In most well-understood examples, activators function by either increasing the affinity of RNA polymerase (RNAP) for the target promoter, or by increasing the isomerization of the initial closed complex to the open complex. We report th...