A complex journey: transmission of microbial symbionts

M Bright, S Bulgheresi - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2010 - nature.com
The perpetuation of symbioses through host generations relies on symbiont transmission.
Horizontally transmitted symbionts are taken up from the environment anew by each host …

Genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying symbiotic specificity in legume-rhizobium interactions

Q Wang, J Liu, H Zhu - Frontiers in plant science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Legumes are able to form a symbiotic relationship with nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria called
rhizobia. The result of this symbiosis is to form nodules on the plant root, within which the …

Establishing nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with legumes: how many rhizobium recipes?

C Masson-Boivin, E Giraud, X Perret, J Batut - Trends in microbiology, 2009 - cell.com
Rhizobia are phylogenetically disparate α-and β-proteobacteria that have achieved the
environmentally essential function of fixing atmospheric nitrogen (N 2) in symbiosis with …

Complete Genome Sequence of Citrus Huanglongbing Bacterium, 'Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus' Obtained Through Metagenomics

Y Duan, L Zhou, DG Hall, W Li… - Molecular Plant …, 2009 - Am Phytopath Society
Citrus huanglongbing is the most destructive disease of citrus worldwide. It is spread by
citrus psyllids and is associated with a low-titer, phloem-limited infection by any of three …

Protein export according to schedule: architecture, assembly, and regulation of type III secretion systems from plant-and animal-pathogenic bacteria

D Büttner - Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Flagellar and translocation-associated type III secretion (T3S) systems are present in most
Gram-negative plant-and animal-pathogenic bacteria and are often essential for bacterial …

The significance of microbial transformation of nitrogen compounds in the light of integrated crop management

A Grzyb, A Wolna-Maruwka, A Niewiadomska - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nitrogen (N) is widely distributed in the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and
biosphere. It is a basic component of every plant cell as well as microorganisms, as a …

Protein secretion systems in bacterial-host associations, and their description in the Gene Ontology

TT Tseng, BM Tyler, JC Setubal - BMC microbiology, 2009 - Springer
Protein secretion plays a central role in modulating the interactions of bacteria with their
environments. This is particularly the case when symbiotic bacteria (whether pathogenic …

The roles of extracellular proteins, polysaccharides and signals in the interactions of rhizobia with legume roots

JA Downie - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Rhizobia adopt many different lifestyles including survival in soil, growth in the rhizosphere,
attachment to root hairs and infection and growth within legume roots, both in infection …

Type III secretion systems: the bacterial flagellum and the injectisome

A Diepold, JP Armitage - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The flagellum and the injectisome are two of the most complex and fascinating bacterial
nanomachines. At their core, they share a type III secretion system (T3SS), a transmembrane …

Genomic insights into plant growth promoting rhizobia capable of enhancing soybean germination under drought stress

NO Igiehon, OO Babalola, BR Aremu - BMC microbiology, 2019 - Springer
Background The role of soil microorganisms in plant growth, nutrient utilization, drought
tolerance as well as biocontrol activity cannot be over-emphasized, especially in this era …