Am Ende der Legislaturperiode wurde es wieder hektisch. Nachdem zu Beginn noch mit viel
Aufwand eine» Expertenkommission zur effektiveren und praxistauglicheren Ausgestaltung …

Cultivated bacteria such as actinomycetes are a highly useful source of biomedically important
natural products. However, such ‘talented’ producers represent only a minute fraction of …

The release of the 1000 th complete microbial genome will occur in the next two to three
years. In anticipation of this milestone, the Fellowship for Interpretation of Genomes (FIG) …

The complete genomic sequence of Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13032, well-known
in industry for the production of amino acids, eg of l-glutamate and l-lysine was determined. …

Background Understanding Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) transmission is essential to
guide efficient tuberculosis control strategies. Traditional strain typing lacks sufficient …

The genus Sorangium synthesizes approximately half of the secondary metabolites isolated
from myxobacteria, including the anti-cancer metabolite epothilone. We report the complete …

The gram-negative plant-pathogenic bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria is
the causative agent of bacterial spot disease in pepper and tomato plants, which leads to …

The complete genome sequence of the Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris strain
B100 was established. It consisted of a chromosome of 5,079,003bp, with 4471 protein-coding …

Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis is a plant-pathogenic actinomycete that
causes bacterial wilt and canker of tomato. The nucleotide sequence of the genome of strain …

Background The use of RNAseq to resolve the transcriptional organization of an organism
was established in recent years and also showed the complexity and dynamics of bacterial …