Crop plants are affected by a series of inhibitory environmental and biotic factors that
decrease their growth and production. To counteract these adverse effects, plants work …

Members of the genus Pseudomonas inhabit a wide variety of environments, which is
reflected in their versatile metabolic capacity and broad potential for adaptation to fluctuating …

Plasmids play an important role in bacterial genome evolution by transferring genes
between lineages. Fitness costs associated with plasmid carriage are expected to be a …

The use of plant growth promoting bacterial inoculants as live microbial biofertilizers
provides a promising alternative to chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Inorganic phosphate …

The genus Pseudomonas described in 1894 is one of the most diverse and ubiquitous
bacterial genera which encompass species isolated worldwide. In the last years more than …

We provide here a comparative genome analysis of ten strains within the Pseudomonas
fluorescens group including seven new genomic sequences. These strains exhibit a diverse …

Pseudomonas fluorescens is not generally considered a bacterial pathogen in humans;
however, multiple culture-based and culture-independent studies have identified it at low …

Soils are immensely diverse microbial habitats with thousands of co-existing bacterial,
archaeal, and fungal species. Across broad spatial scales, factors such as pH and soil …

Although virulence is typically attributed to single pathogenic strains, here we investigated
whether effectors secreted by a population of non-virulent strains could function as public …

Prophages are phages in lysogeny that are integrated into, and replicated as part of, the
host bacterial genome. These mobile elements can have tremendous impact on their …