▪ Abstract Certain strains of fluorescent pseudomonads are important biological components
of agricultural soils that are suppressive to diseases caused by pathogenic fungi on crop …

Geochemical cycling and industrial pollution have made toxic metal ions a pervasive
environmental pressure throughout the world. Biofilm formation is a strategy that …

Plasmids drive genomic diversity in bacteria via horizontal gene transfer [1, 2]; nevertheless,
explaining their survival in bacterial populations is challenging [3]. Theory predicts that …

While beneficial plant-microbe interactions are common in nature, direct evidence for the
evolution of bacterial mutualism is scarce. Here we use experimental evolution to causally …

In many γ‐proteobacteria, the conserved GacS/GacA (BarA/UvrY) two‐component system
positively controls the expression of one to five genes specifying small RNAs (sRNAs) that …

The sensor kinase GacS and the response regulator GacA are members of a two-
component system that is present in a wide variety of Gram-negative bacteria and has been …

Diverse interactions between hosts and microbes are initiated by the detection of host-
released chemical signals. Detection of these signals leads to altered patterns of gene …

Specific strains of fluorescent Pseudomonas spp. inhabit the environment surrounding plant
roots and some even the root interior. Introducing such bacterial strains to plant roots can …

Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) actively colonize the soil portion under the
influence of plant roots, called the rhizosphere. Many plant-beneficial Pseudomonas spp …

Concerted investigations of factors affecting host-pathogen interactions are now possible
with the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and its model pathogen Pseudomo-nas syringae …