Sentences with phrase «different microbes grow»

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The scientists incubated soil from a peatland and a forest in Minnesota at different temperatures and measured the efficiency with which microbes grew.

With the gut microbiota now being linked to so many different health conditions, there is a growing interest in microbial therapies that look to alter the balance of microbes to improve health.

In one experiment, Dangl's team found that Arabidopsis plants with mutant versions of the PHR1 gene not only had impaired phosphate stress responses, but also developed different communities of microbes in and around their roots when grown in a local native North Carolina soil.

By isolating five bacterial strains of endophytes found inside S. halepense rhizomes (subterranean stems used for storage and vegetative reproduction) and growing them in the lab in different mixtures of substrates, the authors determined that these microbes were able to fix and mobilize nitrogen, phosphorus, and iron.

To see if this result could be explained by the microbes inside the leaves, the team used two different methods: the traditional method of placing leaf pieces on agar - coated petri plates to see what fungi grew and directly sequencing the DNA from surface - sterilized leaves.

To test this hypothesis, he and his colleagues, former fellow Min Ni and current graduate student Marianna Feretzaki, grew the microbe in two different ways — one where it underwent asexual reproduction, the other where it underwent unisexual reproduction.

In the second study, Thomas Gajewski at the University of Chicago and colleagues noticed differences in how quickly tumours grew in two groups of mice with different sets of gut microbes.

Learn more about these mysterious microbes, which refuse to grow in the lab and seem to have a fundamentally different relationship with time and energy than we do.

For many microbes, the expansion of growing cell groups toward a source of limiting nutrients tends to promote the spontaneous segregation of different strains due to genetic drift along the advancing group front [36].