Wheat is one of the most important cereal crops and an important source of food for billions of people worldwide. However, drought stress can pose a real threat to its productivity and lead to significant yield losses, especially in Egypt. The rhizospheric microbiome of wheat can play an important role in drought stress and help wheat to respond to this abiotic stress. Understanding this microbiome is therefore also important...

Natural transformation, the process whereby a cell acquires DNA directly from the environment, is an important driver of evolution in microbial populations, yet the mechanism of DNA uptake is only characterized in bacteria. To expand our understanding of natural transformation in archaea, we undertook a genetic approach to identify a catalog of genes necessary for transformation in Methanococcus maripaludis . Using an optimize...

Effects of industrial and municipal wastewaters on the freshwater snail, Lanistes carinatus , were evaluated. Concentrations of some chemicals in some effluents were greater than permissible limits promulgated internationally by various jurisdictions. Pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) observed in tissues of snails collected during summer were greater than those measured in snails collected during winter. Catalase...

Management of Indonesia's marine capture fisheries faces a huge dilemma: evidence suggests that most, if not all, of Indonesia's capture fisheries are fully or overexploited, but the fishery sector is still expected to contribute to the increase of Indonesia's gross national product (GNP) through an increase in total catches. Furthermore, the current practice of using catch‐effort data and Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) model...