The considerable loss of crop productivity each year due to plant disease or pathogen
invasion during pre-or post-harvest storage conditions is one of the most severe challenges …

Honey bees are model organisms for microbiota research. Gut microbiomes are very
interesting for surveys due to their simple structure and relationship with hive production …

Complex microbiomes are part of the food we eat and influence our own microbiome, but
their diversity remains largely unexplored. Here, we generated the open access …

Bees represent not only a valuable asset in agriculture, but also serve as a model organism
within contemporary microbiology. The metagenomic composition of the bee superorganism …

Bee pollen is a highly nutritive natural foodstuff. Because of its use as a comestible, the
association of bacteria with bee pollen is commercially and biologically important. We report …

Apilactobacillus kunkeei is a fructophilic lactic acid bacterium found in fructose-rich
environments such as flowers, fruits, fermented food, honey, and honeydew, as well as in …

Honey bees are model organisms for microbiota research. Gut microbiomes are very
interesting for surveys due to their simple structure and relationship with hive production …

The focus of this thesis is the investigation of the evolution and cellular processes of
Tuwongella immobilis and Apilactobacillus kunkeei, two bacterial species with different …

Bee pollen is a highly nutritive natural foodstuff. Because of its use as a comestible, the
association of bacteria with bee pollen is commercially and biologically important. We report …