Bee pollen is the result of agglutination grains collected from flowers and mixed with nectar salivary secretions by honey bees. a natural product exposed to environmental conditions also provides unique microhabitat for yeasts bacterial communities. We analyzed 30 fresh bee samples obtained main producing areas Argentina identify aerobic-spore-forming bacteria. 73 isolates belonging 16 differe...

AIM To find sustainable alternatives to the application of synthetic chemicals for oomycete pathogen suppression. METHODS AND RESULTS Here, we present experiments on an Arabidopsis thaliana model system in which we studied the antagonistic properties of rhizobacterium Paenibacillus polymyxa strains towards the oomycete plant pathogens Phytophthora palmivora and Pythium aphanidermatum. We carr...

Fusarium oxysporum is the causal agent for wilt diseases of many major ornamental and horticultural crops. In this study, we plated a local cut flower grower’s soil, with a persistent history of Fusarium wilt of scented stock, Matthiola incana but not the lettuce rotational crop. This yielded culture plates with characteristic pink to carmine red fungi, together with a mixed bacterial populatio...

Fish is a very important component of human diet. A total 64 samples Clarias gariepinus were collected from two fish ponds each in Yaba, Ijegun, Ikorodu and Epe Lagos State, Nigeria. The bacterial flora the fishes determined quantitatively qualitatively. mean viable count ranged log10 7.6 cfu/g to 7.9 cfu/g. load on skin intestine generally higher than gills. Salmonella between 7.2 it was highe...

Germination of spores of the genus Bacillus can be stimulated by heat, L-alanine, or manganese. The reversal of L-alanine stimulation by D-alanine (Hills, 1950) appears to be specific and, in the present study, affords a tool for the exploration of the mechanisms and interrelations among heat, manganese and L-alanine stimulations. The heat stimulation of bacterial spore germination has long bee...

In vitro and greenhouse screening of seven rhizobacterial isolates, AB05, AB10, AB11, AB12, AB14, AB15 and AB17, was conducted to investigate the plant growth promoting activities and inhibition against anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum acutatum in pepper. According to identification based on 16S rDNA sequencing, the majority of the isolates are members of Bacillus and a single isolate belon...