Natural products derived from microorganisms serve as a vital resource of valuable
pharmaceuticals and therapeutic agents. Streptomyces is the most ubiquitous bacterial�…

A variety of organisms, such as bacteria, fungi, and plants, produce secondary metabolites,
also known as natural products. Natural products have been a prolific source and an�…

There has been many recent studies on the use of microbial antagonists to control diseases
incited by soilborne and airborne plant pathogenic bacteria and fungi, in an attempt to�…

There is a real consensus that new antibiotics are urgently needed and are the best chance
for combating antibiotic resistance. The phylum Actinobacteria is one of the main producers�…

Given the increased reporting of multi-resistant bacteria and the shortage of newly approved
medicines, researchers have been looking towards extreme and unusual environments as a�…

Background Sub-therapeutic antibiotics are widely used as growth promoters in the poultry
industry; however, the resulting antibiotic resistance threatens public health. A plant-derived�…

Background Genome mining for biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) has become an integral
part of natural product discovery. The> 200,000 microbial genomes now publicly available�…

Streptomyces bacteria are known for their prolific production of secondary metabolites, many
of which have been widely used in human medicine, agriculture and animal health. To guide�…

The growing interest in low-input agriculture in recent years has focused the use of microbial
biofertilizers to improve plant growth and yield through a better mobilization of indigenous�…

Endophytes constitute plant-colonizing microorganisms in a mutualistic symbiosis
relationship. They are found in most ecosystems reducing plant crops' biotic and abiotic�…