Investigators identified undercooking and 72-hour storage as key factors that allowed B. velezensis spores — naturally present in flour or added to crops as an inoculant — to multiply.

The bacterium Bacillus subtilis can be found anywhere from soil to a human’s gastrointestinal tract. Known as hay or grass bacillus, B. subtilis is often used as an agricultural plant to deter ...

They engineered Bacillus subtilis spores to produce Burkholderia cepacia lipase (BC-lipase), an enzyme that breaks down plastic.

Twin spores can be beneficial under particularly harsh conditions, but jumping from single spores to twin spores requires changing cell signaling, division, and chromosomal replication. This is a ...

The process involves feeding Bacillus subtilis spores and TPU pellets into a plastic extruder, which combines and melts them at 135 degrees Celsius into thin plastic strips.

To make the biodegradable plastic, the researchers fed the heat-shock tolerized (HST) Bacillus subtilis spores and TPU pellets into a plastic extruder. The ingredients were mixed and melted at 135 ...

To make the biodegradable plastic, the researchers fed Bacillus subtilis spores and TPU pellets into a plastic extruder. The ingredients were mixed and melted at 135 degrees Celsius, then extruded ...

To make the biodegradable plastic, the researchers fed Bacillus subtilis spores and TPU pellets into a plastic extruder. The ingredients were mixed and melted at 135 degrees Celsius, then extruded ...

However, researchers have come up with a sci-fi like solution. By incorporating spores of plastic-eating bacteria they've developed a plastic that can self-destruct.

Bacillus subtilis is a rod-shaped, flagellated Gram-positive soil bacterium used as a model for endospore formation and differentiation. Bacterial endospores are among the most resilient forms of ...