An experiment was conducted in the laboratory and farm of the Department of Biotechnology, Gauhati University to explore the potentiality of an indigenous strain of Pseudomonas fluorescens as a bio-control agent in the management of bacterial wilt disease of brinjal under local conditions. Different organic materials were evaluated for their potential as substrate carriers in the formulation of...

Ruminants are completely dependent on their microbiota for feed digestion and consequently, their viability. It is therefore tempting to hypothesize a connection between the composition and abundance of resident rumen bacterial taxa and the physiological parameters of the host. Using a pyrosequencing approach, we characterized the rumen bacterial community composition in 15 dairy cows and their...

Bacterial monooxygenase enzymes catalyze a regiospecific single-step hydroxylation of diphenylacetylene to yield meta- and para-hydroxydiphenylacetylene.

The effect of baffle and vortex agitation system on B. pertussis vaccine strain 509 growth yield was examined in industrial fermentor cultivation used single turbine impeller fixed at the bottom of vessel, which has the provision of growth of the organism under controlled conditions with regard to temperature, pH, aeration and agitation. From this study it was found that the use of baffled syst...

Analysis of microbial gene expression during host colonization provides valuable information on the nature of interaction, beneficial or pathogenic, and the adaptive processes involved. Isolation of bacterial mRNA for in planta analysis can be challenging where host nucleic acid may dominate the preparation, or inhibitory compounds affect downstream analysis, e.g., quantitative reverse transcri...