Create accountLogin

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
mathstodon.xyz is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A Mastodon instance for maths people. We have LaTeX rendering in the web interface!

Administered by:

Server stats:

3K
active users

mathstodon.xyz: AboutStatusProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.3.7

#microbes

4 posts4 participants0 posts today
Public
Paul Houle

🦠 Emulsion technique boosts plant growth with bacteria

phys.org/news/2025-03-emulsion

phys.orgEmulsion technique boosts plant growth with bacteriaResearchers have demonstrated a technique for successfully encapsulating bacteria that can then be stored and applied to plants to improve plant growth and protect against pests and pathogens. The technique opens the door to creating a wide range of crop applications that allow farmers to make use of these beneficial bacteria in conjunction with agrochemicals. The paper, "Pickering Emulsion for Enhanced Viability of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria and Combined Delivery of Agrochemicals and Biologics," is published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.
#agriculture#plants#microbes
Public
Leibniz-HKI

🦠#Microbes are in a constant battle for survival! Researchers from @LeibnizHKI @unijena @microverse_exc @unibayreuth discovered how the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae uses a chemical radar to detect and eliminate predatory #amoebae .The #bacteria produce harmless molecules that the amoebae modify, revealing their presence. P. syringae detects this and produces toxic substances to eliminate the predator. This mechanism could inspire new drugs and pest control strategies! 💊 @dfg_public #EFRE

chemical radar Luo Yu/Leibniz-HKI
Continued thread
Public
earthling

2/2

These microbes are far from typical, having genes that are adapted to extreme cold, scarce nutrients and oscillation between intense sunlight in summer and snow-covered darkness of winter.

Some Tibetan glaciers contain microorganisms that can produce antibiotics.

#glaciers
#microbes

Public
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Pink snow tints the edges of Antarctica english.elpais.com/science-tec

"The #algae that covers Mount Reina Sofía in patches is Sanguina nivaloides, a species first described in 2019. The meaning of its scientific name in Latin is eloquent: blood in the snow. Each creature has a single cell, about 20 thousandths of a millimeter in size, with a molecule inside that gives it its characteristic red color: #astaxanthin... the same pigment that produces the color of salmon"

microscopic photo of single-celled algae that look like bright red globes
#Antarctica#Protists#Microbes
Public
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Ancient marine organism's dual-layer structure reveals both past and present ocean environments phys.org/news/2025-02-ancient-

A cosmopolitan calcifying benthic #foraminifera in agglutinated disguise as a geochemical recorder of coastal environments pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2413

"This species has a remarkable hidden feature—an inner shell made of calcium carbonate beneath its outer layer of gathered particles... [this] made them an excellent recorder of environmental conditions."

photo of an irregularly shaped microscopic organism
#Protists#Microbes
Public
badushka

Yo dawg, there are #microbes living in your #nuclear #reactor.

mdpi.com/2076-2607/8/12/1857

MDPIDirect Meta-Analyses Reveal Unexpected Microbial Life in the Highly Radioactive Water of an Operating Nuclear Reactor CoreThe pools of nuclear reactor facilities constitute harsh environments for life, bathed with ionizing radiation, filled with demineralized water and containing toxic radioactive elements. The very few studies published to date have explored water pools used to store spent nuclear fuels. Due to access restrictions and strong handling constraints related to the high radioactivity level, nothing is presently known about life in water pools that directly cool nuclear cores. In this work, we investigated the microbial communities in the cooling pool of the French Osiris nuclear reactor using direct meta-omics approaches, namely, DNA metabarcoding and proteotyping based on 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing and on peptide analysis, respectively. We identified 25 genera in the highly radioactive core water supply during operation with radionuclide activity higher than 3 × 109 Bq/m3. The prevailing genera Variovorax and Sphingomonas at operation were supplanted by Methylobacterium, Asanoa, and Streptomyces during shutdown. Variovorax might use dihydrogen produced by water radiolysis as an energy source.
#biology#science
Public
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Earth's Underworld Is Full of Life sciencealert.com/earths-underw

A global comparison of surface and subsurface microbiomes reveals large-scale biodiversity gradients, and a marine-terrestrial divide science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv

"In an ambitious 8-year census, a team has found an astonishing diversity of #microbes living beneath our planet's surface, deeper than anything we've discovered prior... it has turned up lifeforms as deep as 491m below the ocean floor, and even further below land: 4,375m deep"

Underwater photo of sharp geologic formations at a deep sea hydrothermal vent. There are some red worms visible in the picture and the water around is visibly shimmering.
Public
Matilda's Lab

I, like many other people, used to be largely dismissive of microbes. I've learnt better now, but even I hadn't considered that our futures could be in their hands, or flagella.
eurekalert.org/news-releases/1
#sciencenews #environment #microbes

EurekAlert!Scientists discover unique microbes in Amazonian peatlands that could influence climate changeResearchers from Arizona State University, along with their colleagues from the National University of the Peruvian Amazon, have identified an unknown family of microbes uniquely adapted to the waterlogged, low-oxygen conditions of tropical peatlands in Peru’s northwestern Amazonian rainforest. The new research shows these microbes have a dual role in the carbon cycle and the potential to either moderate or intensify climate change. This process can either stabilize carbon for long-term storage or release it into the atmosphere as greenhouse gases, particularly CO2 and methane.
Public
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Mapping #Antarctica's hidden ice-free lands: A blueprint for conservation phys.org/news/2025-01-antarcti paper: nature.com/articles/s41597-025

"The ice-free lands are home to uniquely adapted flora including micro-forests of #lichens, #moss, and two flowering plants, Antarctic hairgrass and pearlwort. They also sustain a variety of #mites, #springtails, #tardigrades, #nematodes, #algae, and #microbes. #Seabirds have established breeding colonies in these areas too."

photo of antarctic landscape with rocks, snow, small icebergs, and mountains
Public *
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

How tiny algae shaped the #evolution of giant clams phys.org/news/2025-01-tiny-alg nature.com/articles/s42003-024

"T. maxima have evolved more genes for sensors to distinguish friendly #algae from harmful #bacteria, #viruses... it has tuned down some of its immune genes in a way that likely helps the #animals tolerate #microbes... As a result of the weakened #ImmuneSystem, its genome contains a large number of #TransposableElements left behind by viruses. These aspects highlight the tradeoffs of #symbiosis"

Underwater photo of a giant clam. The edges of its shell are deeply wavy and the tissue between them is striated with dark and bright lines and contains dark spots. There are some corals around the clam too.
SearchLive feeds
About