As a complex microbial aggregate, biofilm is a group behavior of bacterial ability to adapt to
the environment. Bacteria produce biofilm substrates that enhance their tolerance to stress …

Bacteria produce a wide range of exopolysaccharides which are synthesized via different
biosynthesis pathways. The genes responsible for synthesis are often clustered within the …

Twenty-five years have passed since the discovery of cyclic dimeric (3′→ 5′) GMP (cyclic
di-GMP or c-di-GMP). From the relative obscurity of an allosteric activator of a bacterial …

While most bacteria are unicellular microbes they communicate with each other and with
their environments to adapt their behaviors. Quorum sensing (QS) is one of the best-studied …

Xanthomonas is a large genus of Gram-negative bacteria that cause disease in hundreds of
plant hosts, including many economically important crops. Pathogenic species and …

Plant pathogenic bacteria of the genus Xanthomonas cause a variety of diseases in
economically important monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous crop plants worldwide …

Diseases caused by Xylella fastidiosa have attained great importance worldwide as the
pathogen and its insect vectors have been disseminated. Since this is the first plant …

The diffusible signaling factor (DSF)-based quorum sensing (QS) system has emerged as a
widely conserved cell–cell communication mechanism in Gram-negative bacteria. Typically …

With the increasing resistance exhibited by undesirable bacteria to traditional antibiotics, the
need to discover alternative (or, at least, supplementary) treatments to combat chemically …

Anaerobic granular sludge (AnGS) has a complex and important internal microbial
communication system due to its unique microbial layered structure. As a concentration …