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Rhizobium type III secretion systems: legume charmers or alarmers?
C Marie1, W J Broughton, W J Deakin
1Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes Supérieures, Université de Genève, 1 ch de l'Impératrice, 1292, Chambésy-Genève, Switzerland. marie7@etu.unige.ch
Current Opinion in Plant Biology
|June 22, 2001
Abstract:
Mutagenesis and sequence analyses of rhizobial genomes have revealed the presence of genes encoding type III secretion systems. Considered as a machine used by plant and animal pathogens to deliver virulence factors into their hosts, this secretion apparatus has recently been proven to play a role in symbiotic bacteria-leguminous plant interactions.