Exopolysaccharides in plant-bacterial interactions.

JA Leigh, DL Coplin - Annual Review of Microbiology, 1992 - europepmc.org
Rhizobial plant symbionts and bacterial plant pathogens produce exopolysaccharides that
often play essential roles in the plant interaction. Many of these exopolysaccharides are …

Rhizobial exopolysaccharides: genetic control and symbiotic functions

A Skorupska, M Janczarek, M Marczak, A Mazur… - Microbial cell …, 2006 - Springer
Specific complex interactions between soil bacteria belonging to Rhizobium, Sinorhizobium,
Mesorhizobium, Phylorhizobium, Bradyrhizobium and Azorhizobium commonly known as …

Production of exopolysaccharides

A Becker, A Pühler - The Rhizobiaceae: molecular biology of model plant …, 1998 - Springer
A broad variety of bacteria including the Rhizobiaceae are able to secrete polysaccharides.
Sugar polymers that form an adherent cohesive layer on the cell surface are designated …

Exopolysaccharide production in Rhizobium and its role in invasion

JX Gray, BG Rolfe - Molecular microbiology, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
A complex interaction between rhizobia and specific legume plants results in the formation
of nitrogen‐fixing root nodules. The necessity for signal exchange and a chemically based …

Exopolysaccharides of Rhizobium: synthesis, regulation and symbiotic function

JA Leigh, GC Walker - Trends in Genetics, 1994 - cell.com
12, 15 11, 23-26 substituent. Succinylation requires ExoH, while pyruvylation requites ExoV.
Non-acetylated or non-succinylated succinoglycan can still be polymerized and exported …

Synthesis of rhizobial exopolysaccharides and their importance for symbiosis with legume plants

M Marczak, A Mazur, P Koper, K Żebracki, A Skorupska - Genes, 2017 - mdpi.com
Rhizobia dwell and multiply in the soil and represent a unique group of bacteria able to
enter into a symbiotic interaction with plants from the Fabaceae family and fix atmospheric …

Rhizobium meliloti exopolysaccharides: synthesis and symbiotic function

JE González, GM York, GC Walker - Gene, 1996 - Elsevier
Bacterial exopolysaccharide (EPS) is required for establishment of the nitrogen-fixing
symbiosis between Rhizobium meliloti and its host plant, Medicago sativa (alfalfa), but the …

Environmental signals and regulatory pathways that influence exopolysaccharide production in rhizobia

M Janczarek - International journal of molecular sciences, 2011 - mdpi.com
Rhizobia are Gram-negative bacteria that can exist either as free-living bacteria or as
nitrogen-fixing symbionts inside root nodules of leguminous plants. The composition of the …

Rhizobium meliloti lipopolysaccharide and exopolysaccharide can have the same function in the plant-bacterium interaction

P Putnoky, G Petrovics, A Kereszt… - Journal of …, 1990 - Am Soc Microbiol
A fix region of Rhizobium meliloti 41 involved both in symbiotic nodule development and in
the adsorption of bacteriophage 16-3 was delimited by directed Tn5 mutagenesis. Mutations …

Rhizobial exopolysaccharides: Genetic regulation of their synthesis and relevance in symbiosis with legumes

S Acosta-Jurado, F Fuentes-Romero… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Rhizobia are soil proteobacteria able to engage in a nitrogen-fixing symbiotic interaction
with legumes that involves the rhizobial infection of roots and the bacterial invasion of new …