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💚🧬🔬🧩👨🎓💚📤📈👨🌾🌾💚🍞📈👍💚 - What is Plant Pathology ? - Why is it Important ? - Monitoring of populations of pathogens - and effectiveness of resistance genes in host plants ... AGROBIODIVERSITY and AGRICULTURE - 🧩📌The Red Queen and the Court Jester: Species Diversity and the Role of Biotic and Abiotic Factors Through Time https://lnkd.in/d8pzWVHW Science 323(5915):728-32 Abstract Evolution may be dominated by biotic factors, as in the Red Queen model, or abiotic factors, as in the Court Jester model, or a mixture of both. The two models appear to operate predominantly over different geographic and temporal scales: Competition, predation, and other biotic factors shape ecosystems locally and over short time spans, but extrinsic factors such as climate and oceanographic and tectonic events shape larger-scale patterns regionally and globally, and through thousands and millions of years. Paleobiological studies suggest that species diversity is driven largely by abiotic factors such as climate, landscape, or food supply, and comparative phylogenetic approaches offer new insights into clade dynamics. #evolution #competition #climatechange #RedQueen #CourtJester #fitness #genetics #ecosystem #gene #ItAllStartsWithTheSeed🌱 #FoodSecurity #ClimateAction #nutrition #FAO #PGR #germplasm #geneticresources #genebank #seedbank #biodiversity #ecosystem ... #resistance

🌵 BMKGENE's Contribution to Microbial Ecology Research in Extreme Environments 🧬 📚 We are excited to share insights from a recent study published in Microorganisms MDPI, illuminating the intricate microbial communities thriving within the Great Gobi Strictly Protected Area (Link: https://lnkd.in/deye_TaZ). 🌡️ This study characterized the bacterial community composition of soil from four oases by extracting total DNA and sequencing it using the Illumina NovaSeq platform. Additionally, the authors evaluated the soil's chemical and physical properties and their impact on shaping microbial communities. Despite similar extreme climate conditions, the oases exhibited significant variability in physiochemical parameters and bacterial composition. 🌱 Furthermore, the core functional microbiome consisted of aerobic chemoheterotrophy and chemoheterotrophy, primarily contributed by abundant bacteria such as Actinobacteriota, Pseudomonadota, and Firmicutes. This suggests metabolic flexibility crucial for desert life sustainability. BMKGENE's 16S amplicon sequencing and analysis services played a pivotal role in uncovering these insights. To learn how we can assist with your microbial genomics project, contact us now: https://lnkd.in/dEwG33Jd #16SAmplicon #Microbiome #SoilDesert #SoilMicroorganisms #BacterialCommunities

🌵 BMKGENE's Contribution to Microbial Ecology Research in Extreme Environments 🧬 📚 We are excited to share insights from a recent study published in Microorganisms MDPI, illuminating the intricate microbial communities thriving within the Great Gobi Strictly Protected Area (Link: https://lnkd.in/deye_TaZ). 🌡️ This study characterized the bacterial community composition of soil from four oases by extracting total DNA and sequencing it using the Illumina NovaSeq platform. Additionally, the authors evaluated the soil's chemical and physical properties and their impact on shaping microbial communities. Despite similar extreme climate conditions, the oases exhibited significant variability in physiochemical parameters and bacterial composition. 🌱 Furthermore, the core functional microbiome consisted of aerobic chemoheterotrophy and chemoheterotrophy, primarily contributed by abundant bacteria such as Actinobacteriota, Pseudomonadota, and Firmicutes. This suggests metabolic flexibility crucial for desert life sustainability. BMKGENE's 16S amplicon sequencing and analysis services played a pivotal role in uncovering these insights. To learn how we can assist with your microbial genomics project, contact us now: https://lnkd.in/dEwG33Jd #16SAmplicon #Microbiome #SoilDesert #SoilMicroorganisms #BacterialCommunities

𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭: 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐮𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐬. "As #stupidity is typically #human, one can say that like a Janus bifrons, #homosapiens is also #homostultus, a stupid man, in keeping with Latin taxonomy." “Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals #cooperate #generously and #unselfishly towards a #commongood, you can expect little help from #biologicalnature. Let us try to teach #generosity and #altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own #selfishgenes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to” (Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Oxford: OUP, 2006, 3). Article written by Gabriela Dragnea Horvath

🌳 A #clonalcolony is a collection of genetically identical organisms that grow in a specific location and originate from a single ancestor. These are important biological phenomena—but can you spot one in the wild? This blog might help: https://idtb.io/nvzem5

Hi everyone! I just finished reading an interesting scientific article. Each day I'll share information about research. #science #lifesciences #biology Ilicic, D., Woodhouse, J., Karsten, U. et al. Chytrid fungi infecting Arctic microphytobenthic communities under varying salinity conditions. Sci Rep 14, 25821 (2024). https://lnkd.in/ed8Fz-zW Link: https://lnkd.in/eUb7Jqbg Changes in the Arctic marine ecosystem due to climate change are altering the dynamics between chytrids and microphytobenthic communities. The authors aimed to understand how Arctic coastal food webs are influenced by host-parasite interactions, using high-throughput Illumina sequencing. Results indicate that glacial runoff, caused by rising temperatures, has led to an increase in chytrid populations in shallow waters. These fungi tolerate higher salinity, impacting microalgae like green algae and diatoms, with infection rates reaching 9.5% in some samples. Further research is needed on infection rates, population dynamics, and nutrient cycling effects.

If evolution was originally depicted as a tree, with different #Species branching off as new blooms, then new research published in Nature (Nature Portfolio) shows how the branches may actually be more entangled. Harvard University researchers show that hybrids between species of #Butterflies can produce new species that are genetically distinct from both parent species and their earlier forebears. Read more on EurekAlert! here: https://lnkd.in/eSM6b8Zc #ConservationEcology #Hybridization

Genomes of multicellular algal relatives reveal evolutionary clues to plant origins, Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 06, 2024 Land plants, which dominate our planet's landscape, have developed from simple organisms into complex forms with diverse organs and cell types. This transformation, supported by a vast network of genes, facilitates the intricate shaping of plant structures through various molecular processes. This significant evolution began with a singular event-plant terrestrialization-when ancestors of,

✍️Tracing back our ancestry - LUCA - another study takes us further back : '..Here we infer that LUCA lived ~4.2 Ga (4.09–4.33 Ga) through divergence time analysis of pre-LUCA gene duplicates, calibrated using microbial fossils and isotope records under a new cross-bracing implementation. Phylogenetic reconciliation suggests that LUCA had a genome of at least 2.5 Mb (2.49–2.99 Mb), encoding around 2,600 proteins, comparable to modern prokaryotes. Our results suggest LUCA was a prokaryote-grade anaerobic acetogen that possessed an early immune system. Although LUCA is sometimes perceived as living in isolation, we infer LUCA to have been part of an established ecological system. The metabolism of LUCA would have provided a niche for other microbial community members and hydrogen recycling by atmospheric photochemistry could have supported a modestly productive early ecosystem ...' - Extract #nature #luca #skdscans

The reference #genome of Valencia hispanica, a critically endangered actinopterygian species endemic to the Iberian Peninsula, is key to unravelling its genetic architecture and adaptation to freshwater ecosystems. https://lnkd.in/dvE5aZtP ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas & Biodiversity Genomics Europe