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A Hydroponic Co-cultivation System for Simultaneous and Systematic Analysis of Plant/Microbe Molecular Interactions and Signaling
Published on: July 22, 2017
What can bacterial genome research teach us about bacteria-plant interactions?
Alfred Pühler1, Matthieu Arlat, Anke Becker
1Lehrstuhl für Genetik, Universität Bielefeld, 33594 Bielefeld, Germany. puehler@genetik.uni-bielefeld.de
Abstract:
Biological research is changing dramatically. Genomic and post-genomic research is responsible for the accumulation of enormous datasets, which allow the formation of holistic views of the organisms under investigation. In the field of microbiology, bacteria represent ideal candidates for this new development. It is relatively easy to sequence the genomes of bacteria, to analyse their transcriptomes and to collect information at the proteomic level. Genome research on symbiotic, pathogenic and associative bacteria is providing important information on bacteria-plant interactions, especially on type-III secretion systems (TTSS) and their role in the interaction of bacteria with plants.
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