The present invention provides a screening method for selecting plant symbiotic microorganisms enabling plant growth under abiotic stress and/or biotic stress, a microbial mixture of microorganisms which are selected from nature by the method and enables a plant to grow under salinity stress and/or hyperosmotic stress in symbiosis with the plant. Specifically, the present invention provides a screening method for selecting plant symbiotic microorganisms, comprising a first screening step of allowing at least one plant to grow for a predetermined period of time while being partially soaked in a solution containing a microbial mixture under abiotic stress and/or biotic stress, and collecting microorganisms adhering to grown plant to thereby select out the microorganisms as plant symbiotic microorganisms enabling plant growth under the stress.

The invention relates to a bactericide composition based on bacteriophages for the control of black plague in plants or parts thereof, preferably walnuts, a preparation method and application. The invention provides methods for the isolation, propagation and application of bacteriophages against phytopathogens affecting trees/plants that are of commercial interest for their fruit, flowers etc., for the prevention, treatment or reduction of signs, in particular, for Xanthomonas A. pv juglandis in walnuts.

A composition and method for preventing and/or treating an E. coli-based infection in an animal is described.

The present invention generally relates to therapeutic compositions and methods for treating cancer patients. The compositions and methods can increase efficacy of an anti-cancer therapy, or treat, prevent, or inhibit an oncology-treatment induced condition (OTIC) induced by an anti-cancer therapy. The therapeutic compositions comprise microbial compositions and, optionally, an anti-cancer therapeutic agent. The methods comprise administering a therapeutic composition comprising a microbial composition and administering an anti-cancer therapy.

The present invention relates to a composition comprising a) recombinant exosporium-producing Bacillus cells that express a fusion protein comprising: (i) at least one plant growth stimulating protein or peptide and (ii) a targeting sequence that localizes the fusion protein to the exosporium of the Bacillus cells; and b) at least one particular fungicide disclosed herein in a synergistically effective amount. Furthermore, the present invention relates to the use of this composition as well as a method for enhancing plant growth, promoting plant health, and/or reducing overall damage of plants and plant parts.

The present invention relates to a composition comprising a) recombinant exosporium-producing Bacillus cells that express a fusion protein comprising: (i) at least one plant growth stimulating protein or peptide and (ii) a targeting sequence that localizes the fusion protein to the exosporium of the Bacillus cells; and b) at least one particular fungicide disclosed herein in a synergistically effective amount. Furthermore, the present invention relates to the use of this composition as well as a method for enhancing plant growth, promoting plant health, and/or reducing overall damage of plants and plant parts.

The invention relates to a method of treating chronic granulomatous disease through Hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation. The method comprises the steps of administering stem cell mobilization agent to human such that the target stem cell population migrates from host niches into the subject's blood. The target stem cells are removed from blood and administering the therapeutic stem cells to human and said therapeutic stem cells are engineered to express gp91.sup.phox. The steps are repeated multiple times i.e. at least four times. The mobilization agents used in the invention are granulocyte-colony stimulating factor and AMD3100. The method of HSC transplantation is effective in treatment of chronic granulomatous disease.

Disclosed is a Lactobacillus strain having a blood glucose lowering effect and an antioxidant effect, a culture medium of the strain, and a cell-free supernatant of the strain. Further, a composition for lowering a blood glucose level contains the same. A composition having an antioxidant ability contains the same. The Lactobacillus plantarum MG4229 strain according to the present disclosure has excellent blood glucose lowering activity and antioxidant activity, and has excellent acid tolerance, bile tolerance, auto-aggregation, and adhesion to epithelial cells, and thus is suitable for probiotics, and thus may be used in various ways as a composition for preventing or treating diabetes mellitus or a composition having antioxidant ability.

The invention relates to methods for the screening, identification and/or application of one or more microorganisms of use in imparting one or more beneficial properties to one or more plants.

The invention relates to methods for the screening, identification and/or application of one or more microorganisms of use in imparting one or more beneficial properties to one or more plants.