Dormancy is a bet-hedging strategy used by a wide range of taxa, including
microorganisms. It refers to an organism's ability to enter a reversible state of low metabolic …

Plants often face incompatible growing environments like drought, salinity, cold, frost, and
elevated temperatures that affect plant growth and development leading to low yield and, in …

Water is vital for many biological processes and is essential for all living organisms.
However, numerous macroorganisms and microorganisms have adapted to survive in …

Genetically identical cells exposed to the same environmental conditions can show
significant variation in molecular content and marked differences in phenotypic …

We report on the toxicity of ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) to gram-negative and gram-positive
bacterial systems, Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), and …

Climate change is strongly affecting high‐mountain soils and warming in particular is
associated with pronounced changes in microbe‐mediated C and N cycling, affecting plant …

Concerns over the disposal of preservative-treated wood waste and its related
environmental problems are the main driving forces of research into the recycling of …

Microorganisms rule the functioning of our planet and each one of the individual
macroscopic living creature. Nevertheless, microbial activity and growth status have always …

The importance of memory in bacterial decision-making is relatively unexplored. We show
here that a prior experience of swarming is remembered when Escherichia coli encounters a …

Disposable plastic bags of two different chemical compositions and colors were remediated
by the application of novel mesophilic group of bacteria isolated from the banks of sea water …