Bacteria in the genus Brucella are important human and veterinary pathogens. The abortion
and infertility they cause in food animals produce economic hardships in areas where the …

Rhizobia are soil proteobacteria able to engage in a nitrogen-fixing symbiotic interaction
with legumes that involves the rhizobial infection of roots and the bacterial invasion of new …

Rhizobia are Gram-negative bacteria that can exist either as free-living bacteria or as
nitrogen-fixing symbionts inside root nodules of leguminous plants. The composition of the …

Microbial extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) have been shown to alter soil moisture
retention and to improve seedling survival and plant growth at the bulk scale. The …

Key message Compatible interaction between rhizobial Nod factors and host receptors
enables initial recognition and signaling events during legume-rhizobia symbiosis. Abstract …

Many species of Proteobacteria communicate by using LuxI-LuxR–type quorum-sensing
systems that produce and detect acyl-homoserine lactone (acyl-HSL) signals. Most of the …

Histone-like nucleoid structuring (H-NS) and H-NS-like proteins serve as global gene
silencers and work with antagonistic transcriptional activators (counter-silencers) to properly …

Cyclic dimeric GMP (c-di-GMP) has emerged as a key regulatory player in the transition
between planktonic and sedentary biofilm-associated bacterial lifestyles. It controls a …

Bacterial adaptation is largely shaped by horizontal gene transfer, xenogeneic silencing
mediated by lineage-specific DNA bridgers (H-NS, Lsr2, MvaT and Rok), and various anti …

Classical zinc finger (ZF) domains were thought to be confined to the eukaryotic kingdom
until the transcriptional regulator Ros protein was identified in Agrobacterium tumefaciens …