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Biocontrol capabilities of the genus Serratia for sustainable agriculture: Enterobacteria with a unique secondary metabolism
Serratia are enterobacterias, widely diverse and occupying many different habitats such as water, soil, plants, vertebrates and humans. They share a rich secondary metabolism and are able to produce a wide range of natural bioactive products including the β-lactam antibiotic carbapenem or the antifungal compound oocydin A.
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The First Spanish/Chinese Workshop "Centre of Excellence for Plant-Environment Interactions (CEPEI)”
CEPEI, a newly established international research center created to maximise the synergies between Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (CBGP, UPM-INIA), the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) and the Shanghai Centre for Plant Stress Biology (PSC) organizes the First Spanish/Chinese Workshop that will take place in Madrid on the 2nd March 2020.
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Advances deciphering the epigenome of plants
Epigenetic regulation in plants has enormous implications for crop improvement and agriculture. Researchers at Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (CBGP, UPM-INIA) used next-generation sequencing approaches and novel computational analytical pipelines to describe the genome-wide map of an epigenetic mark in a Brassica crop.
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Gain and loss of accessory genes accelerates gene sequence divergence and promotes speciation in prokaryotes
A recent study in Nature Communications led by CBGP researcher Dr. Jaime Iranzo compares the tempos of genome evolution through acquisition and loss of accessory genes and through mutations in core genes. Results imply that gene turnover promotes speciation by facilitating the spread of barriers to homologous recombination across the core genome.
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Identification of a specific regulator of protein synthesis in plants
Researchers at the Center for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics (CBGP, UPM-INIA) reveal how plants modulate protein synthesis to adapt it to their living style.
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A step closer to nitrogen-fixing plants
The study shows the power of combining synthetic biology and hard-core biochemistry to engineer a critical step of nitrogenase biosynthesis in yeast..
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