Currently, plant diseases and insect infestations are mainly controlled by the extraneous
application of pesticides. Unfortunately, the indiscriminate use of such agrochemicals can …

In the current scenario of changing climatic conditions and the rising global population, there
is an urgent need to explore novel, efficient, and economical natural products for the benefit …

Bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas are ubiquitous in nature. Pseudomonads display a
fascinating metabolic diversity, which correlates with their ability to colonize an extremely …

Cyclic lipodepsipeptides produced by Pseudomonas spp.(Ps-CLPs) are biosurfactants that
constitute a diverse class of versatile bioactive natural compounds with promising …

Bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas occupy diverse environments. The Pseudomonas
fluorescens group is particularly well-known for its plant-beneficial properties including …

Insects are an important and probably the most challenging pest to control in agriculture, in
particular when they feed on belowground parts of plants. The application of synthetic …

Mass spectrometry is a powerful tool in natural product structure elucidation, but our ability to
directly correlate fragmentation spectra to these structures lags far behind similar efforts in …

Determining the drivers of microbial community assembly is a central theme of microbial
ecology, and chemical ecologists seek to characterize how secondary metabolites mediate …

Addressing the pressing issues of increased food demand, declining crop productivity under
varying agroclimatic conditions, and the deteriorating soil health resulting from the overuse …

Particular groups of plant-beneficial fluorescent pseudomonads are not only root colonizers
that provide plant disease suppression, but in addition are able to infect and kill insect …