The role of bacterial surface components in combination with bacterial functional signals in
the process of biofilm formation has been increasingly studied in recent years. Plants …

Widespread pollution of terrestrial ecosystems with petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs) has
generated a need for remediation and, given that many PHCs are biodegradable, bio-and …

Fusarium is a complex genus of ascomycete fungi that consists of plant pathogens of
agricultural relevance. Controlling Fusarium infection in crops that leads to substantial yield …

Bacillus subtilis is a plant-beneficial Gram-positive bacterium widely used as a biofertilizer.
However, relatively little is known regarding the molecular processes underlying this …

Quorum sensing (QS) and quorum quenching (QQ) are increasingly reported in biological
wastewater treatment processes because of their inherent roles in biofilm development …

Most legume species have the ability to establish a symbiotic relationship with soil nitrogen‐
fixing rhizobacteria that promote plant growth and productivity. There is an increasing …

Bacteria have their own form of “twitter” communication, described as quorum sensing (QS),
where bacteria emit and sense chemical signal molecules as a means to gauge population …

Bacterial exopolysaccharides have always been suggested to play crucial roles in the
bacterial initial adhesion and the development of complex architecture in the later stages of …

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

Bacterial surface components and extracellular compounds, particularly flagella,
lipopolysaccharides (LPSs), and exopolysaccharides (EPSs), in combination with …