A team analyzed the amino acids that affect the formation of spores in a bacterium that causes food poisoning, Clostridium perfringens, and identified serine as an amino acid that inhibits spore ...
In the age-old battle between man and microbe, it pays to know your enemy. This is especially true for Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes anthrax. Tiny spores of this highly infectious ...
ALTHOUGH Pellia epiphylla (L.) Corda is frequently studied as an example of a liverwort, details of its mode of spore formation do not appear to be widely known. Many text-book descriptions of the ...