Soil, the living terrestrial skin of the Earth, plays a central role in supporting life and is home
to an unimaginable diversity of microorganisms. This review explores key drivers for …

The soil microhabitat is a heterogeneous and complex environment where local variations
can modulate phenomena observed at the plot scale. Most of the current methods used to …

The type 6 secretion system (T6SS) is a nanomachine used by many Gram-negative
bacteria, including Vibrio cholerae, to deliver toxic effector proteins into adjacent eukaryotic …

Biofilms are dynamic habitats which constantly evolve in response to environmental
fluctuations and thereby constitute remarkable survival strategies for microorganisms. The …

The bacterial interactions that regulate Cd sorption and As bioreduction in co-contaminated
systems are poorly understood. We isolated two bacterial strains, ie, Pseudomonas …

Volume microscopy has become an important method in cellular biology. In contrast to
tedious serial sectioning volumes can now far more conveniently be obtained with serial …

Paraburkholderia phytofirmans PsJN is an endophytic bacterium and has been shown to
promote the growth and health of many different plants. Exopolysaccharide (EPS) plays …

Bacterial physiology and adaptation are influenced by the exopolysaccharides (EPS) they
produce. These polymers are indispensable for the assembly of the biofilm extracellular …

Polymyxins are cationic peptide antibiotics and regarded as the “final line of defense”
against multidrug-resistant bacterial infections. Meanwhile, some polymyxin-resistant strains …

The myxobacteria are an order of abundant and virtually ubiquitous soil-dwelling
Deltaproteobacteria. They initially attracted scientific attention in the nineteenth century for …