Plant-adapted Escherichia coli show increased lettuce colonizing ability, resistance to oxidative stress and chemotactic response

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Dublan, Maria De Los Angeles ^a,b,c   Ortiz Marquez, Juan Cesar Federico ^a,b   Lett, Lina ^c   Curatti, Leonardo ^a,b  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Biotecnología Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas ^*  (Argentina)

^b Fundacion para Investigaciones Biologicas Aplicadas   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL AGGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; INTERNALIZATION; LETTUCE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT LEAF; PLANT MICROORGANISM INTERACTION; PLANT ROOT; PLANT TISSUE; SEEDLING; VASCULAR TISSUE; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTUCA;

CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LETTUCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS;

EID: 84907978770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110416     Document Type: Article

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