Plant diseases caused by bacterial pathogens place major constraints on crop production
and cause significant annual losses on a global scale. The attainment of consistent effective …

Bacteria that cause infectious diseases adopt biofilms as one of their most prevalent
lifestyles. Biofilms enable bacteria to tolerate environmental stress and evade antibacterial …

Plant pathogenic bacteria attack numerous agricultural crops, causing devastating effects on
plant productivity and yield. They survive in diverse environments, both in plants, as …

Unlike most Pseudomonas, the root-associated bacterium Pseudomonas stutzeri A1501
fixes nitrogen after the horizontal acquisition of a nitrogen-fixing (nif) island. A genome-wide …

The pectinolytic Dickeya spp. are Gram-negative bacteria causing severe disease in a wide
range of plant species. Although the Dickeya genus was initially restricted to tropical and …

The Dickeya genus comprises numerous pathogenic species that cause diseases in various
crops, vegetables, and ornamental plants across the globe. The pathogens have become …

Erwinia amylovora is an economically devastating plant pathogen that causes fire blight
disease in members of the Rosaceae family, most notably in apple and pear. The …

The rhizosphere bacterium Bacillus cereus 905 is capable of promoting plant growth
through effective colonization on plant roots. The sodA2-encoding manganese-containing …

The identification of the virulence factors of plant‐pathogenic bacteria has relied on the
testing of individual mutants on plants, a time‐consuming process. Transposon sequencing …

Superoxide dismutases (SODs) have been shown to exhibit high levels of conservation and
exist in almost all aerobic organisms and even many strict anaerobes. There are four SODs …