Bacillus subtilis is one of the most widely studied plant growth–promoting rhizobacteria. It is
able to promote plant growth as well as control plant pathogens through diverse …

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 …

B acillus subtilis and other B acilli have long been used as biological control agents against
plant bacterial diseases but the mechanisms by which the bacteria confer protection are not …

Biofilms are communities of microorganisms that live attached to surfaces. Biofilm formation
has received much attention in the last decade, as it has become clear that virtually all types …

Genetically identical cells sharing an environment can display markedly different
phenotypes. It is often unclear how much of this variation derives from chance, external …

Biofilm formation is a social behaviour that generates favourable conditions for sustained
survival in the natural environment. For the Gram‐positive bacterium B acillus subtilis the …

Wild strains of Bacillus subtilis are capable of forming architecturally complex communities
of cells known as biofilms. Critical to biofilm formation is the eps operon, which is believed to …

Here, we review the multiple mechanisms that the Gram‐positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis
uses to allow it to communicate between cells and establish community structures. The …

One of the most remarkable features of the evolutionary process is its capacity to construct.
In billions of years a primordial soup of organic compounds evolved to the theater of life …

The master regulator for entry into sporulation in Bacillus subtilis is the response regulator
Spo0A, which directly governs the expression of about 121 genes. Using cells in which the …