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Significant amount of crops yield are lost in the world constantly due to fungal pathogens that inhibit plants in the process of growth or affect harvested products. Rhamnolipids that are detergents produced by bacteria may be efficient environmental friendly alternative of chemical fungicides conventionally used to suppress pathogens. In the present study, the influence of treatment of Fusarium infected cherry tomatoes (Lycopersicon lycopersicum) plants and fruits by a rhamnolipid produced by Pseudomonas fluoresc...

It is well known that soil polluted with different pollutants, including oil, can naturally remediate. Primarily, the process of oil utilization starts with the degradation of saturated alkanes by microorganisms. Alkane monooxygenase is the major enzyme involved in the degradation of alkanes and it is classified into three groups, each catalyzing the degradation of n-alkanes with different chain lengths. In this study, we investigated abundance of alkane monooxygenases genes in the soil contaminated with oil durin...

Large areas of oil contaminated soil are an urgent problem in oil producing regions, such as the Republic of Tatarstan (Russia). One of important factors of soil self-restoration is the presence of members able to decompose hydrocarbons in the microbial community. Different groups of genes are responsible for decomposing different hydrocarbon groups: for example, alkane monooxygenase gene and naphthalene dioxygenase gene are the predominant genes corresponding to first-step hydroxylases involved in the metabolism ...