The hygroscopic biosurfactant syringafactin produced by Pseudomonas syringae enhances fitness on leaf surfaces during fluctuating humidity

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2086-2098

  Burch, Adrien Y ^a   Zeisler, Viktoria ^b   Yokota, Kenji ^c   Schreiber, Lukas ^b   Lindow, Steven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTUCA; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. SYRINGAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIPOPEPTIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; DIFFUSION; FABACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMIDITY; LETTUCE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; OPERON; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DIFFUSION; FABACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMIDITY; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; LETTUCE; LIPOPEPTIDES; MUTATION; OPERON; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; WATER;

EID: 84903783524     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12437     Document Type: Article

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