Many bacteria swim in liquid or swarm over solid surfaces by synthesizing rotary flagella.
The same bacteria that are motile also commonly form nonmotile multicellular aggregates …

Beneficial plant–microbe associations play critical roles in plant health. Bacterial chemotaxis
provides a competitive advantage to motile flagellated bacteria in colonization of plant root …

Rhizobia adopt many different lifestyles including survival in soil, growth in the rhizosphere,
attachment to root hairs and infection and growth within legume roots, both in infection …

Burkholderia phytofirmans PsJN is a naturally occurring plant-associated bacterial
endophyte that effectively colonizes a wide range of plants and stimulates their growth and …

Dinoroseobacter shibae DFL12T, a member of the globally important marine Roseobacter
clade, comprises symbionts of cosmopolitan marine microalgae, including toxic …

Surfaces immersed in seawater are rapidly colonized by various microorganisms, resulting
in the formation of heterogenic marine biofilms. These communities are known to influence …

Biofilms are bacterial communities enclosed within an extracellular matrix of
polysaccharides produced by the bacteria, which adhere to a living or an inert macrosurface …

N-Acylhomoserine lactone (AHL) quorum-sensing (QS) signalling is the best-understood
chemical language in proteobacteria. In the last 15 years a large amount of research in …

Bacteria can modulate their behavior by releasing and responding to the accumulation of
signal molecules. This population co-ordination, referred to as quorum sensing, is prevalent …

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 …