Endophytic <i>Streptomyces</i> from honeybee hives inhibit plant and honeybee pathogens.

ABSTRACT: Honey bees are the most common pollinator of crops worldwide. However, our reliance on honey bees to pollinate pesticide-treated monoculture crops, combined with their pest and disease susceptibility, have led honey bee populations to fluctuate in recent years. Current treatments for honey bee bacterial and fungal diseases are inadequate due to poor safety profiles and increased pathogen resistance to these treatments. There has been renewed interest in discovering natural products from actinobacteria associated with bees to use as new hive treatments; however, few studies have determined whether these microbes are truly unique to bees or part of their broader environment. We isolated actinobacteria from plant pollen and hive pollen stores and found that the isolated Streptomyces st

SUBMITTER: Reichardt C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12518290 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature