{"id":243690,"date":"2020-08-27T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futurecobioscience.com\/2020\/08\/27\/publicada-la-secuencia-genetica-completa-de-una-bacteria-con-actividad-nematicida\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T10:37:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T09:37:46","slug":"published-the-complete-genetic-sequence-of-a-bacterium-with-nematicidal-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futurecobioscience.com\/en\/published-the-complete-genetic-sequence-of-a-bacterium-with-nematicidal-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Published the complete genetic sequence of a bacterium with nematicidal activity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New success for Futureco Bioscience researchers, who deposit in GenBank &#8211; the NIH (National Institutes of Health) public database of genetic sequences, and reference for laboratories worldwide &#8211; the first&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/nuccore\/CP043732.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complete genetic sequence of a&nbsp;<em>Microbacterium esteraromaticum<\/em>&nbsp;strain<\/a>. To date, only scattered pieces of the genome of this species have been sequenced. Futureco Bioscience researchers have succeeded in finishing the puzzle and assembling the genome of&nbsp;<em>M. esteraromaticum<\/em>&nbsp;B24 into a single complete circular chromosome, solving the last doubts about the possible order of the genetic sequence pieces or the existence of intermediate sequences that might have been missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bacteria of the genus&nbsp;<em>Microbacterium<\/em>&nbsp;are Gram-positive, non-spore forming, cylindrical shaped, psychotropic (growing and multiplying at low temperatures) and highly heat resistant bacteria. Members of the genus&nbsp;<em>Microbacterium<\/em>&nbsp;can be isolated from a wide range of environments, including soil, insects, human clinical specimens, marine environments, plants, and dairy products. The B24 strain of&nbsp;<em>M. esteraromaticum<\/em>&nbsp;in particular, isolated in Almeria (Spain) and part of the vast collection of microorganisms of Futureco Bioscience, has a peculiarity that has made this bacterium interesting in the eyes of our researchers: its nematicidal activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until now, we could highlight as the main microbial groups with potential as biological control agents of nematodes, bacteria such as&nbsp;<em>Pasteuria penetrans<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Tsukamurella paurometabola<\/em>, which are part of commercial products registered in the United States and some Latin American countries, as well as the fungi&nbsp;<em>Arthhobotrys irregularis<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Paecilomyces lilacinus<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Pochonia chlamydosporia<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The in vitro, climatic chamber, greenhouse and field experiments carried out to evaluate the nematicidal activity of the B24 strain of&nbsp;<em>M. esteraromaticum<\/em>&nbsp;have clearly demonstrated its effectiveness in controlling root\u2010knot nematodes &nbsp;(of the genus&nbsp;<em>Meloidogyne<\/em>) and cyst forming nematodes (of the genus&nbsp;<em>Globodera<\/em>) in tomato, cucumber, melon and potato crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Futureco Bioscience has already filed a patent application and is working to incorporate a nematicide product based on this strain as an active ingredient into its catalog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New success for Futureco Bioscience researchers, who deposit in GenBank &#8211; the NIH (National Institutes of Health) public database of genetic sequences, and reference for laboratories worldwide &#8211; the first&nbsp;complete genetic sequence of a&nbsp;Microbacterium esteraromaticum&nbsp;strain. To date, only scattered pieces of the genome of this species have been sequenced. Futureco Bioscience researchers have succeeded in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":243422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futurecobioscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futurecobioscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futurecobioscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurecobioscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurecobioscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurecobioscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurecobioscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futurecobioscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurecobioscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurecobioscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}