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Microbe-plant interactions: principles and mechanisms
Ben J J Lugtenberg1, Thomas F C Chin-A-Woeng, Guido V Bloemberg
1Leiden University, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, Clusius Laboratory, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
|November 27, 2002
Abstract:
The present status of research on the molecular basis of microbe-plant interactions is discussed. Principles and mechanisms which play a role in the interactions of microbial pathogens, biofertilizers, phytostimulators, rhizoremediators and biocontrol agents with the plants are treated. Special emphasis is given to colonization, phase variation, two-component systems, quorum sensing, complex regulation of the syntheses of extracellular enzymes and secondary metabolites, Type 4 pili and Type III and Type IV secretion systems.