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This month’s Genome Watch highlights efforts to engineer microorganisms and their plant hosts to address the challenges of sustainable agriculture.

This study identifies a master regulator of chronic-stage differentiation in Toxoplasma gondii.

A recent study finds that cell growth and division in Staphylococcus aureus are regulated by an amidase that cleaves peptides from uncrosslinked peptidoglycan and a partner protein.

A recent study suggests that host–gut microbiome phylosymbioses depend on host factors that were lost during adaptation to flight.

A recent study uncovers the molecular mechanism of artemisinin resistance in the most lethal human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.

Upon host colonization, increased vesiculation accelerates the modulation of the cell surface composition of Vibrio cholerae, which confers resistance to host-derived antimicrobial peptides and bile.