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  1. A Novel Tiled Amplicon Sequencing Assay Targeting the Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus (ToBRFV) Genome Reveals Widespread Distribution in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Systems in the Province of Ontario, Canada
  2. Tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in wastewater: an assessment of nine computational tools using simulated genomic data
  3. A Novel Tiled-Amplicon Sequencing Assay Targeting theTomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus(ToBRFV) Genome Reveals Widespread Distribution in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Systems in the Province of Ontario, Canada
  4. Microbiome Interconnectedness throughout Environments with Major Consequences for Healthy People and a Healthy Planet
  5. Production of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) copolymer from food waste using mixed culture for carboxylate production and Pseudomonas putida for PHA synthesis
  6. Mode of action of nanochitin whisker against Fusarium pseudograminearum
  7. Editorial: Functional Metagenomics for Enzyme Discovery
  8. Sequence polarity between the promoter and the adjacent gene modulates promoter activity
  9. Genome Sequence of Brevundimonas sp., an Arsenic Resistant Soil Bacterium
  10. Alcov: Estimating Variant of Concern Abundance from SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Sequencing Data
  11. Impacts on International Research Collaborations from DSI/ABS Uncertainty
  12. Driving factors influencing the rhizobacteriome community structure of plants adapted to multiple climatic stressors in edaphic savannas
  13. International Reporting Mechanism for Unethical Germline Gene Editing Experiments Is Needed
  14. Development of Microbiome Biobanks – Challenges and Opportunities
  15. Dynamics of microbial populations and diversity in NAPL contaminated peat soil under varying water table conditions
  16. Slr4, a newly identified S‐layer protein from marine Gammaproteobacteria, is a major biofilm matrix component
  17. Correction to: Microbiome definition re-visited: old concepts and new challenges
  18. Development of Microbiome Biobanks – Challenges and Opportunities
  19. The variation of promoter strength in different gene contexts
  20. Microbiome definition re-visited: old concepts and new challenges
  21. Unraveling a Tangled Skein: Evolutionary Analysis of the Bacterial Gibberellin Biosynthetic Operon
  22. Time Series Resolution of the Fish Necrobiome Reveals a Decomposer Succession Involving Toxigenic Bacterial Pathogens
  23. Lactic acid containing polymers produced in engineered Sinorhizobium meliloti and Pseudomonas putida
  24. Fungal and Bacterial Microbiome Associated with the Rhizosphere of Native Plants from the Atacama Desert
  25. Isolation and Identification of Endophytic Bacteria from Mycorrhizal Tissues of Terrestrial Orchids from Southern Chile
  26. Metagenome-Assembled Genome Sequences of Five Strains from the Microtus ochrogaster (Prairie Vole) Fecal Microbiome
  27. Unraveling a tangled skein: Evolutionary analysis of the bacterial gibberellin biosynthetic operon
  28. Enhanced Arsenic Tolerance in Triticum aestivum Inoculated with Arsenic-Resistant and Plant Growth Promoter Microorganisms from a Heavy Metal-Polluted Soil
  29. Designer Sinorhizobium meliloti strains and multi-functional vectors enable direct inter-kingdom DNA transfer
  30. Lactic Acid Containing Polymers Produced in Engineered Sinorhizobium meliloti and Pseudomonas putida
  31. An engineered GFP fluorescent bacterial biosensor for detecting and quantifying silver and copper ions
  32. Designer Sinorhizobium meliloti strains and multi-functional vectors for direct inter-kingdom transfer of high G+C content DNA
  33. Development of a GFP Fluorescent Bacterial Biosensor for the Detection and Quantification of Silver and Copper Ions
  34. Developing a Bacteroides System for Function-Based Screening of DNA from the Human Gut Microbiome
  35. The Completed PacBio Single-Molecule Real-Time Sequence of Methylosinus trichosporium Strain OB3b Reveals the Presence of a Third Large Plasmid
  36. A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity
  37. Transcriptome Analysis of Polyhydroxybutyrate Cycle Mutants Reveals Discrete Loci Connecting Nitrogen Utilization and Carbon Storage in Sinorhizobium meliloti
  38. Discovery of a proteolytic flagellin family in diverse bacterial phyla that assembles enzymatically active flagella
  39. Functional metagenomics reveals novel β-galactosidases not predictable from gene sequences
  40. Synthesis and Physical Properties of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Polymers with Different Monomer Compositions by Recombinant Pseudomonas putida LS46 Expressing a Novel PHA SYNTHASE (PhaC116) Enzyme
  41. Functional Metagenomics: Tools and Applications
  42. Metagenomic Approaches to Identify Novel Organisms from the Soil Environment in a Classroom Setting
  43. A biosynthetic gene cluster in rhizobia is responsible for producing gibberellin phytohormones
  44. Engineering of Escherichia coli for direct and modulated biosynthesis of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) copolymer using unrelated carbon sources
  45. Novel polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymers produced in Pseudomonas putida by metagenomic polyhydroxyalkanoate synthases
  46. Functional metagenomics reveals novel β-galactosidases not predictable from gene sequences
  47. Functional metagenomics using Pseudomonas putida expands the known diversity of polyhydroxyalkanoate synthases and enables the production of novel polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymers
  48. An analysis of the validity and utility of the proximon proposition
  49. Genome-engineered Sinorhizobium meliloti for the production of poly(lactic- co -3-hydroxybutyric) acid copolymer
  50. Current and future resources for functional metagenomics
  51. Strong spurious transcription likely contributes to DNA insert bias in typical metagenomic clone libraries
  52. Strong spurious transcription likely a cause of DNA insert bias in typical metagenomic clone libraries
  53. Open Resource Metagenomics
  54. MetaProx: the database of metagenomic proximons
  55. Multisubstrate Isotope Labeling and Metagenomic Analysis of Active Soil Bacterial Communities
  56. Amelioration of high salinity stress damage by plant growth-promoting bacterial endophytes that contain ACC deaminase
  57. Evaluation of a Pooled Strategy for High-Throughput Sequencing of Cosmid Clones from Metagenomic Libraries
  58. Stable Isotope Probing and Metagenomics
  59. Versatile broad-host-range cosmids for construction of high quality metagenomic libraries
  60. A bioinformatics approach to the determination of genes involved in endophytic behavior in Burkholderia spp.
  61. Meeting Report: 1st International Functional Metagenomics Workshop May 7–8, 2012, St. Jacobs, Ontario, Canada.
  62. Open Resource Metagenomics
  63. Members of the Sinorhizobium meliloti ChvI regulon identified by a DNA binding screen
  64. Isolation and characterization of new plant growth-promoting bacterial endophytes
  65. Delay of flower senescence by bacterial endophytes expressing 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase
  66. Site-specific Bacterial Chromosome Engineering: ΦC31 Integrase Mediated Cassette Exchange (IMCE)
  67. Nonlinear electrophoresis for purification of soil DNA for metagenomics
  68. Open resource metagenomics: a model for sharing metagenomic libraries
  69. Harvesting of novel polyhydroxyalkanaote (PHA) synthase encoding genes from a soil metagenome library using phenotypic screening
  70. ACC deaminase activity in avirulent Agrobacterium tumefaciens D3
  71. The Fluorescence Theatre: a cost-effective device using theatre gels for fluorescent protein and dye screening
  72. ACC deaminase increases the Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation frequency of commercial canola cultivars
  73. Sinorhizobium meliloti1021 Loss-of-Function Deletion Mutation inchvIand Its Phenotypic Characteristics
  74. Identification and characterization of new LuxR/LuxI-type quorum sensing systems from metagenomic libraries
  75. Identification and characterization of the intracellular poly-3-hydroxybutyrate depolymerase enzyme PhaZ of Sinorhizobium meliloti
  76. Methods for the Isolation of Genes Encoding Novel PHB Cycle Enzymes from Complex Microbial Communities
  77. Null mutations inSinorhizobium meliloti exoSandchvIdemonstrate the importance of this two-component regulatory system for symbiosis
  78. Evaluation of Bacterial Community Structure and Its Influence on Sulfide Oxidation in a Bio-Leaching Environment
  79. The class IId bacteriocin thuricin-17 increases plant growth
  80. Mutational Analysis of theSinorhizobium melilotiShort-Chain Dehydrogenase/Reductase Family Reveals Substantial Contribution to Symbiosis and Catabolic Diversity
  81. 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-Carboxylate (ACC) Deaminase Genes in Rhizobia from Southern Saskatchewan
  82. ACC deaminase from plant growth-promoting bacteria affects crown gall development
  83. Influence of the Poly-3-Hydroxybutyrate (PHB) Granule-Associated Proteins (PhaP1 and PhaP2) on PHB Accumulation and Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in Sinorhizobium meliloti Rm1021
  84. Presence of a novel 16S–23S rRNA gene intergenic spacer insert in Bradyrhizobium canariense strains
  85. Roles of poly-3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) and glycogen in symbiosis of Sinorhizobium meliloti with Medicago sp.
  86. Effects of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Limitation on the Activated Sludge Biomass in a Kraft Mill Biotreatment System
  87. The role of PHB metabolism in the symbiosis of rhizobia with legumes
  88. A novel bacteriocin, thuricin 17, produced by plant growth promoting rhizobacteria strain Bacillus thuringiensis NEB17: isolation and classification
  89. Isolation of Poly-3-Hydroxybutyrate Metabolism Genes from Complex Microbial Communities by Phenotypic Complementation of Bacterial Mutants
  90. Comparison of the symbiotic and competition phenotypes of Sinorhizobium meliloti PHB synthesis and degradation pathway mutants
  91. NodMutDB: a database for genes and mutants involved in symbiosis
  92. Characterization ofbdhA, encoding the enzyme d-3-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase, fromSinorhizobiumsp. strain NGR234
  93. Functional Genomic Analysis of the SDR Family in Sinorhizobium meliloti
  94. Expression of an Exogenous 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-Carboxylate Deaminase Gene in Sinorhizobium meliloti Increases Its Ability To Nodulate Alfalfa
  95. Heterologous complementation of the exopolysaccharide synthesis and carbon utilization phenotypes ofSinorhizobium melilotiRm1021 polyhydroxyalkanoate synthesis mutants
  96. Purification and characterization of homodimeric methylmalonyl-CoA mutase from Sinorhizobium meliloti
  97. Low temperature tolerant Bradyrhizobium japonicum strains allowing improved nodulation and nitrogen fixation of soybean in a short season (cool spring) area
  98. Application of crossover-PCR-mediated deletion-insertion mutagenesis to analysis of the bdhA-xdhA2-xdhB2 mixed-function operon of Sinorhizobium meliloti
  99. Effect of experimental contamination with the explosive hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine on soil bacterial communities
  100. Co-inoculation dose and root zone temperature for plant growth promoting rhizobacteria on soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr] grown in soil-less media
  101. A global pH sensor: Agrobacterium sensor protein ChvG regulates acid-inducible genes on its two chromosomes and Ti plasmid
  102. The effect of temperature and genistein concentration on lipo-chitooligosaccharide (LCO) production by wild-type and mutant strains of Bradyrhizobium japonicum
  103. Bradyrhizobium japonicum Mutants Allowing Improved Soybean Yield in Short Season Areas with Cool Spring Soil Temperatures
  104. Bradyrhizobium japonicum mutants allowing improved nodulation and nitrogen fixation of field-grown soybean in a short season area
  105. Identification of an Acetoacetyl Coenzyme A Synthetase-Dependent Pathway for Utilization of l-(+)-3-Hydroxybutyrate in Sinorhizobium meliloti
  106. Low Temperature–Tolerant Strains Allowing Improved Soybean Yield in Short-Season Areas
  107. Bradyrhizobium japonicumMutants with Enhanced Sensitivity to Genistein Resulting in AlterednodGene Regulation
  108. Cellobiose dehydrogenase is essential for wood invasion and nonessential for kraft pulp delignification by Trametes versicolor
  109. Genetic transformation of Trametes versicolor to phleomycin resistance with the dominant selectable marker shble
  110. The chvH Locus ofAgrobacterium Encodes a Homologue of an Elongation Factor Involved in Protein Synthesis
  111. Polyphasic microbial community analysis of petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated soils from two northern Canadian communities
  112. Polyphasic microbial community analysis of petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated soils from two northern Canadian communities
  113. An ACC Deaminase Minus Mutant of Enterobacter cloacae UW4No Longer Promotes Root Elongation
  114. Requirement for the Enzymes Acetoacetyl Coenzyme A Synthetase and Poly-3-Hydroxybutyrate (PHB) Synthase for Growth of Sinorhizobium meliloti on PHB Cycle Intermediates
  115. Sinorhizobium meliloti strain 1021 bioS and bdhA gene transcriptions are both affected by biotin available in defined medium
  116. Methylmalonyl-CoA mutase encoding gene of Sinorhizobium meliloti
  117. Cloning and sequencing of a gene encoding cellobiose dehydrogenase from Trametes versicolor
  118. Discrete Regions of the Sensor Protein VirA Determine the Strain-Specific Ability ofAgrobacteriumto Agroinfect Maize
  119. Inhibition of the expression of Bradyrhizobium japonicum nod genes at low temperatures
  120. Construction of Agrobacterium strains by electroporation of genomic DNA and its utility in analysis of chromosomal virulence mutations
  121. Preformed dimeric state of the sensor protein VirA is involved in plant--Agrobacterium signal transduction.
  122. A chromosomally encoded two-component sensory transduction system is required for virulence of Agrobacterium tumefaciens
  123. Two-Component Sensory Transduction Systems in Phytobacteria
  124. The ntrA gene of Agrobacterium tumefaciens: identification, cloning, and phenotype of a site-directed mutant
  125. ndvF, a novel locus located on megaplasmid pRmeSU47b (pEXO) of Rhizobium meliloti, is required for normal nodule development
  126. Lactose utilization and enzymes encoded by megaplasmids in Rhizobium meliloti SU47: implications for population studies
  127. Genetic map of Rhizobium meliloti megaplasmid pRmeSU47b
  128. Analysis of C4-dicarboxylate transport genes in Rhizobium meliloti
  129. Functional Analysis of Genes of Unknown Functions in Sinorhizobium meliloti 1021