Biofilm formation is a major concern in various sectors and cause severe problems to public
health, medicine, and industry. Bacterial biofilm formation is a major persistent threat, as it …

Enzymes have played a crucial role in mankind's challenges to use different types of
biological systems for a diversity of applications. They are proteins that break down and …

The ocean is considered to be a great reservoir of biodiversity. Microbial communities in
marine environments are ecologically relevant as intermediaries of energy, and play an …

Trichoderma spp. are used for biocontrol of several plant pathogens. However, their efficient
interaction with the host needs to be accompanied by production of secondary metabolites …

Horizontally transmitted endophytes are an ecological group of fungi that infect living plant
tissues and survive in them without causing any disease symptoms. Even as facets of the …

A novel alginate-degrading marine bacterium Microbulbifer sp. ALW1 was isolated from
rotten brown alga. An extracellular alginate lyase was purified to electrophoretic …

Salty environments are widely known to be inhospitable to most microorganisms. For
centuries salt has been used as a food preservative, while highly saline environments were …

Filamentous fungi possess the metabolic capacity to degrade environment organic matter,
much of which is the plant and algae material enriched with the cell wall carbohydrates and …

Alginate oligosaccharides with different bioactivities can be prepared through the specific
degradation of alginate by alginate lyases. Therefore, alginate lyases that can be used to …

Background The predominant mode of life of most of the bacteria is their biofilm state. Based
on the type of bacteria existing within the biofilm, it might be beneficial or harmful. Its …