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Food Industry and Microbiological Toxins Contamination
Food safety and quality are affected by the growth and development of microbes in the food industry and processing environment and on food products....
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Microbial Responses to Hydrocarbon Contamination and Its Bioremediation
Hydrocarbon contamination poses significant environmental challenges due to its persistence and adverse effects on ecosystems. Contamination of soil...
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Rapid and sensitive detection of genome contamination at scale with FCS-GX
Assembled genome sequences are being generated at an exponential rate. Here we present FCS-GX, part of NCBI’s Foreign Contamination Screen (FCS) tool...
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Effects of N fertilization and hybrid genotype on fusarium and aspergillus mycotoxin contamination in maize kernels
Maize is an essential crop globally, serving multiple functions as food, animal feed, and a raw material for various industries, exhibiting greater...
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Removal of sequencing adapter contamination improves microbial genome databases
Advances in assembling microbial genomes have led to growth of reference genome databases, which have been transformative for applied and basic...
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Endophytic Fungi for Reduction of Mycotoxin Contamination in Crops
Common pollutants in agricultural commodities include mycotoxins, produced by toxigenic fungi such as Fusarium and Aspergillus. Conventional...
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Molecular identification and elimination of endophytic contamination using antibiotics from in vitro culture of Vitex peduncularis Wall. Ex Schauer
Vitex peduncularisWall. Ex Schauer, a medicinal tree in Jharkhand, is rich in flavonoids, iridoids, terpenoids, and essential oils. Its low...
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Microplastic contamination in commercial tilapia feeds: lessons from a developing country
Microplastic (MP) contamination in aquaculture feed presents an increasing threat to both the aquaculture industry and global public health. This...
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Guardians of the Depths: Managing Groundwater Contamination in Developing Countries
Groundwater contamination throughout many developing countries is an unavoidable consequence of increasing activity by human beings, which separates...
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Microbial remediation technology for heavy metal contamination of mine soil
The problem of persistent and potentially toxic heavy metal-contaminated soils is widespread worldwide. These heavy metal concentrations have...
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In vitro culture of date palm: a review of challenges and solutions for managing endophytic bacteria contamination
Organogenesis is a reliable method for the commercial micropropagation of date palm cultivars, contributing to the preservation of the date palm...
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Heavy Metal Contamination in Food: Sources, Impact, and Remedy
Heavy metal contamination of food crops and seafood is a growing global concern with severe health risks to humans and animals. This contamination...
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Bacterial contamination of new dental unit waterlines and efficacy of shock disinfection
BackgroundBacterial contamination of outlet water from dental unit waterlines (DUWLs) may lead to healthcare-associated infection. The aim of this...
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Improving plant adaptation to soil antimony contamination: the synergistic contribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus and olive mill waste
BackgroundThis study aimed to investigate the alterations in biochemical and physiological responses of oat plants exposed to antimony (Sb)...
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Limited contamination by trace metals in city colonies of the ant Temnothorax nylanderi (Foerster, 1850)
In urban environments, trace metals are a widespread class of pollutants that represent a major threat to organisms. Contamination levels in insects...
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Influence of tailing dust contamination in drinking water on the health status of goats in subtropical Regions
The contamination of river systems by tailing dust remains a constraint to goat productivity in communal farming systems. A cross-sectional study was...
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GTax: improving de novo transcriptome assembly by removing foreign RNA contamination
The cost and complexity of generating a complete reference genome means that many organisms lack an annotated reference. An alternative is to use a...
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Heavy metal contamination in fish: sources, mechanisms and consequences
This comprehensive review provides a thorough exploration of a mounting environmental issue: heavy metal contamination in aquatic ecosystems and its...
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Prevention and control of parasitic contamination in industrial microalgae cultures
In the field of industrial microalgae production, the introduction of parasitic contaminants is an often-neglected topic, but one that represents a...
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Cont-ID: detection of sample cross-contamination in viral metagenomic data
BackgroundHigh-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies completed by the bioinformatic analysis of the generated data are becoming an important...
