There are about a trillion species of microbes on Earth, but usually we only pay attention when one of them, E. coli for example, has led to an outbreak of disease. However, besides a few disease ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. The rhizobia are excellent model bacteria for understanding how plants interact with the root microbiota, in particular, owing to the ...

Some species can replicate themselves in as little as twenty minutes. We can grow bacteria in an incubator on plates of agar jelly with time, nutrients, and an optimum temperature. These girls at ...