Excessive and indiscriminate use of antibiotics to treat bacterial infections has lead to the
emergence of multiple drug resistant strains. Most infectious diseases are caused by …

Rhizobia adopt many different lifestyles including survival in soil, growth in the rhizosphere,
attachment to root hairs and infection and growth within legume roots, both in infection …

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 …

Given the major threat of phytopathogenic bacteria to food production and ecosystem
stability worldwide, novel alternatives to conventional chemicals-based agricultural practices …

Quorum sensing is widely recognized as an efficient mechanism to regulate expression of
specific genes responsible for communal behavior in bacteria. Several bacterial phenotypes …

Members of the rhizobia are distinguished for their ability to establish a nitrogen-fixing
symbiosis with leguminous plants. While many details of this relationship remain a mystery …

Acyl-homoserine lactones are small neutral lipid molecules that bacteria in the
Proteobacteria group use to sense and signal their cell density. This signaling process …

The major cause of mortality and morbidity in human beings is bacterial infection. Bacteria
have developed resistance to most of the antibiotics primarily due to large-scale and …

Bacterial signalling known as quorum sensing (QS) relies on the synthesis of autoinducing
signals throughout growth; when a threshold concentration is reached, these signals interact …

Sinorhizobium meliloti is a soil bacterium which can establish a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis
with the legume Medicago sativa. Recent work has identified a pair of genes, sinR and sinI …