The DSF Quorum Sensing System Controls the Positive Influence of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia on Plants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Alavi, Peyman ^a   Müller, Henry ^a   Cardinale, Massimiliano ^a   Zachow, Christin ^a,b   Sánchez, María B ^c   Martínez, José Luis ^c   Berg, Gabriele ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b AUSTRIAN CENTRE OF INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; CELL AGGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSIBLE SIGNAL FACTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERMINATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GROWTH; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; QUORUM SENSING; RAPESEED; RHIZOSPHERE; RPFF GENE; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

BIOLOGICAL FACTORS; BRASSICA RAPA; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUORUM SENSING; SPERMIDINE; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84880436389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067103     Document Type: Article

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