A beneficial relationship between bacterium, fungus, and plant
Cooperation
Microbes cooperate during cheddar cheese formation and give it its unique flavour.
While bacteria are unicellular organisms, sometimes they form multicellular entities to survive.
Le métabolisme du xylitol par les bactéries intestinales présente des avantages inexplorés et intrigants.
Ground squirrels are known to hold on to long periods of hibernation through the strategic help of ureolytic bacteria. Here’s the why and how this connection is important to us.
Negative interactions between bacteria were thought to be the rule… Until now.
Scientists uncover how a bacterium, living within a soil-dwelling fungus, protects its host from predatory nematodes.
Plants love bacteria, bacteria love plants back. Who loves who more?
Xylitol metabolism by gut bacteria has unexplored and intriguing benefits.
In the environment, microbes don’t live alone but rather in a community. But do microbes necessarily cooperate within these communities in order to survive?
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