Degradation of pathogen quorum-sensing molecules by soil bacteria: A preventive and curative biological control mechanism

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 71-81

  Molina, Lázaro ^a   Constantinescu, Florica ^a,d   Michel, Laurent ^b   Reimmann, Cornelia ^b   Duffy, Brion ^c   Défago, Geneviève ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c Eidgenossische Forsch Anst O   (Switzerland)

^d Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences   (Romania)

Author keywords

Autoinducer; Biocontrol; Chromobacterium violaceum; Erwinia carotovora; Microbial signaling; Quorum sensing

Indexed keywords

2,4 DIACETYLPHLOROGLUCINOL; ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL ENZYME; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; PHENAZINE DERIVATIVE; PLASMID VECTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTAGONISM; BACTERIAL DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; FUNGAL DISEASE; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; RHIZOSPHERE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL PLANT DISEASE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL WILT; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN GALL; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; GENETIC CODE; INOCULATION; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PLANT TUBER; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS CHLORORAPHIS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RHIZOSPHERE; SOFT ROT; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPECIES COMPARISON; TOMATO; WILD TYPE;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACILLUS; BACILLUS SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROMOBACTERIUM; CHROMOBACTERIUM VIOLACEUM; ERWINIA; ERWINIA CAROTOVORA; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM F. SP. LYCOPERSICI; FUSARIUM SP.; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS CHLORORAPHIS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0037528693     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(03)00125-9     Document Type: Article

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