A study found summer food insufficiency rose 4 percentage points among low-income households with children, while first-year Summer EBT participation was low and showed no measurable effect. Federal ...

Researchers have demonstrated a technique for successfully encapsulating bacteria that can then be stored and applied to plants to improve plant growth and protect against pests and pathogens. The ...

Researchers conducted a high-throughput growth assay and machine learning to address the genetic and environmental interplay on bacterial growth. The findings indicated that the environmental ...

They cultured six bacterial species in 195 different nutrient environments (media) and profiled their growth, generating 4,680 quantitative indices based on two parameters: growth rate and population ...

Bioinformaticians have established that the genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order. They describe that the genes are arranged by function: If they become increasingly important ...

The group of bacteria called Enterobacteriaceae, including Klebsiella pneumoniae, Shigella, E. coli and others, is present at low levels as part of a healthy human gut microbiome. But at high ...

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Two PGPR formulations combined with 30 kg N per hectare improved groundnut growth, nodulation and yield in glasshouse and ...

A capsule containing 16 kinds of bacteria may help protect stem cell transplant patients from bloodstream infections. An ...