Bacterial spores store information about the individual growth history of their progenitor cells, thus retaining a "memory" that links the different stages of the bacterial life cycle. The spore ...

A team analyzed the amino acids that affect the formation of spores in a bacterium that causes food poisoning, Clostridium perfringens, and identified serine as an amino acid that inhibits spore ...

Scientists have long searched for the answer to the question of how bacteria decide to cease normal function and form a spore, which in essence means death for the microbe. Bioengineering researchers ...

ALTHOUGH Pellia epiphylla (L.) Corda is frequently studied as an example of a liverwort, details of its mode of spore formation do not appear to be widely known. Many text-book descriptions of the ...

WHILST nitrate reduction is a property common to a large group of bacteria belonging to very divergent genera (Micrococcus, Pseudomonas, Bacillus, etc.), all investigators who have thoroughly studied ...