Scientists at the University of Liverpool, together with Japanese colleagues, have gained new insight into how soil bacteria sense and adapt to the levels of oxygen in their environment. The findings could be used to help develop new treatments to promote crop growth and tackle disease.
Scientists at the University of Liverpool, together with Japanese colleagues, have gained new insight into how soil bacteria sense and adapt to the levels of oxygen in their environment. The findings could be used to help develop new treatments to promote crop growth and tackle disease.
Living organisms are sensitive to the changes of environmental factors, such as oxygen, light, and heat. To adapt to these changes, humans have signal transduction systems that sense each environmental factor and maintain our lives by responding to them. Such systems are present not only in humans but also in all living organisms, and each organism maintains its life by using its own systems.
In this study, an international collaborative research team led by Samar Hasnain at the University’s Institute of Integrative Biology and Hitomi Sawai at the University of Hyogo, Japan focused on a protein system that senses the concentration of oxygen in the soil by the root nodule bacteria (rhizobia) that coexist with legumes.
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