Sentences with phrase «microbial communities thrive»

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The PDF, Microbes Make the Cheese, A Report from the American Academy for Microbiology explains: Cheese is created by orderly successions of microbial communities that produce compounds responsible for cheese flavor... Each piece of cheese contains as many as 10,000,000,000 or 10 billion microbes... The added starter cultures dominate the cheese microbiota, establishing conditions that select for the next microorganisms that will be capable of thriving in the changing cheese matrix.

They found that microbial communities transplanted from the tongue to the forearm thrived, whereas those shifted from the tongue to the forehead faltered and developed to resemble the community they had replaced.

The research also suggests that the microbial succession on a cadaver operates similarly to the colonization that occurs in plant communities, where «at first, weedy species thrive — they scoop up the easy - to - eat stuff,» says DeBruyn.

The microbial communities are being analysed using state - of - the - art sequencing techniques, which will allow us to make a detailed inventory of the microbes thriving in these unique ecosystems.»

This indicates to Brodie that as they establish the microbial community within the rhizosphere, plants could be exuding metabolites like phenolic acids to help them control the types of microbes thriving around their roots.

While the jury's out on whether these supplements have any effect on the gut's bacterial environment, it is clear that not having a thriving microbial community in one's intestines can be dangerous, with consequences ranging from a day or two of diarrhea to life - threatening infection with a nasty bug called Clostridium difficile, which can gain a foothold in patients treated with antibiotics.

While these levels remain unfortunately low, animal studies provide us with some clues as to how to increase the sulforaphane yield of these bacteria — feed them more.66 In just four days of a high broccoli diet, those bacteria that thrive on cruciferous vegetables grow in number, leading to a change in composition of the microbial community and an increase in opportunistic bacteria that turn our broccoli into cancer - fighting sulforaphane.