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ReviewApplied and environmental microbiology2020

Applications of Bacillus subtilis Spores in Biotechnology and Advanced Materials.

Xiaopei Zhang, Amal Al-Dossary, Myer Hussain, Peter Setlow, Jiahe Li

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Review in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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44citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Characterization ofBioscience of microbiota, food and health · 2026
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  11. Probiotic-Based Materials as Living Therapeutics.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
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  13. Sporulation kinetics ofApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025
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  15. Ameliorative Effects of Soybean Powder Fermented byInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  16. Sporulation at reduced water activity impairs germination kinetics ofApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025
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  20. Immobilization of alginate C-5 epimerases usingApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Xiaopei ZhangDepartment of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Amal Al-DossaryDepartment of Biology, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Myer HussainDepartment of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Peter SetlowDepartment of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
Jiahe LiDepartment of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA jiah.li@northeastern.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-9889-8546

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The bacterium

Indexed as

Bacillus subtilisBiotechnologySpores, BacterialConstruction MaterialsBacillus subtilisbiotechnologyendosporesmaterial sciences

Identifiers

PMID32631858
PMCPMC7440806

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