Academic Research

Professor Chieh-Chen Huang and his team isolated the endophytic halophilic bacterium Priestia megaterium BP01R2 from the endangered salt marsh plant Bolboschoenus planiculmis and found that it can promote plant growth and enhance salinity tolerance. Through multi-omics analyses, they further showed that BP01R2 may alleviate salt stress by modulating hormone signalling, energy-producing metabolism, and multiple stress-response pathways. The study also identified the cyclic dipeptide cyclo(L-Ala-Gly) as a contributing factor in salinity stress alleviation. The research was published in ISME Communications (Hung et al., 2024).

Article source: https://academic.oup.com/ismecommun/article/4/1/ycae041/7635496