Bioinsecticides based on Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) are widely used to control agricultural pests. However, there concerns about their impact non-target organisms, with for example, the green lacewing Ceraeochrysa claveri, a polyphagous predator important value in biological of insect pests agroecosystems. This study aimed analyse effects Agree® bioinsecticide (containing Bt serovar aizawai GC...

Tomato is the main vegetable cultivated under soilless culture systems (SCSs); production of organic tomato SCSs has increased due to consumer demands for healthier and environmentally friendly vegetables. However, been associated with low crop performance fruit quality defects. These agricultural deficiencies could be linked alterations in plant microbiota; nonetheless, this issue not sufficie...

Species of Anoxybacillus are widespread in geothermal springs, manure, and milk-processing plants. The genus is composed of 22 species and two subspecies, but the relationship between its lifestyle and genome is little understood. In this study, two high-quality draft genomes were generated from Anoxybacillus spp. SK3-4 and DT3-1, isolated from Malaysian hot springs. De novo assembly and annota...

A computational study at the level density functional theory (DFT) was carried out to investigate the influences of Si and C-doping on the N and Al quadrupole coupling constant in the (10, 0) zigzag single – walled Aluminum-Nitride nanotube (AlNNT). To this aim, a 1.16nm, length of AlNNT consisting of 40 Al atoms and 40 N atoms were selected where the end atoms are capped by hydrogen atom. To f...

The striped stem borer, Chilo suppressalis (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), is the most abundant stem borer of rice Oryza sativa L. (Poaceae) in temperate Asia. Chilo suppressalis also occurs throughout the tropical rice-growing areas of Asia, where it is generally second in abundance to the yellow stem borer, Scirpophaga incertulas (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) (Pathak & Khan, 1994). Ste...

One of the central issues of evolutionary genomics is to find out the adaptive strategies of microorganisms to stabilize nucleic acid molecules under high temperature. Thermal adaptation hypothesis gives a link between G+C content and growth temperature if there is a considerable variation of guanine and cytosine content between species. However, there has been a long-standing debate regarding ...

Cultivation-independent investigation of microbial ecology is biased by the DNA extraction methods used. We aimed to quantify those biases by comparative analysis of the metagenome mined from four diverse naturally fermented foods (bamboo shoot, milk, fish, soybean) using eight different DNA extraction methods with different cell lysis principles. Our findings revealed that the enzymatic lysis ...

Despite the importance of coral microbiomes for holobiont persistence, the interactions among these are not well understood. In particular, knowledge of the co-occurrence and taxonomic importance of specific members of the microbial core, as well as patterns of specific mobile genetic elements (MGEs), is lacking. We used seawater and mucus samples collected from Mussismilia hispida colonies on ...