Why are rhizobial symbiosis genes mobile?

GE Wardell, MF Hynes, PJ Young… - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Rhizobia are one of the most important and best studied groups of bacterial symbionts. They
are defined by their ability to establish nitrogen-fixing intracellular infections within plant …

Pathogenicity and Its Implications in Taxonomy: The Brucella and Ochrobactrum Case

E Moreno, JM Blasco, JJ Letesson, JP Gorvel… - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
The intracellular pathogens of the genus Brucella are phylogenetically close to
Ochrobactrum, a diverse group of free-living bacteria with a few species occasionally …

The effect and mechanism of urban fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) on horizontal transfer of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance genes

S **e, AZ Gu, T Cen, D Li, J Chen - Science of the total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) and antimicrobial resistance are two major threats
to public health worldwide. Current air pollution studies rely heavily on the assessment of …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple driving factors contribute to the variations of typical antibiotic resistance genes in different parts of soil-lettuce system

X Wen, J Xu, G **ang, Z Cao, Q Yan, J Mi, B Ma… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The application of manure compost may cause the transmission of antibiotic resistance
genes (ARGs) in agroecological environment, which poses a global threat to public health …

Petrol and diesel exhaust particles accelerate the horizontal transfer of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance genes

Y Zhang, AZ Gu, T Cen, X Li, D Li, J Chen - Environment international, 2018 - Elsevier
Particles exhausted from petrol and diesel consumptions are major components of urban air
pollution that can be exposed to human via direct inhalation or other routes due to …

Ensifer canadensis sp. nov. strain T173T isolated from Melilotus albus (sweet clover) in Canada possesses recombinant plasmid pT173b harbouring symbiosis and type IV …

ESP Bromfield, S Cloutier, MF Hynes - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
A bacterial strain, designated T173T, was previously isolated from a root-nodule of a
Melilotus albus plant growing in Canada and identified as a novel Ensifer lineage that …

An invisible workforce in soil: The neglected role of soil biofilms in conjugative transfer of antibiotic resistance genes

S Wu, Y Wu, B Cao, Q Huang, P Cai - Critical Reviews in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Soil, a potential reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), is inhabited by numerous
microorganisms. Many microorganisms in soil are embedded within a self-produced matrix …

Diversity and Evolutionary History of Ti Plasmids of “tumorigenes” Clade of Rhizobium spp. and Their Differentiation from Other Ti and Ri Plasmids

N Kuzmanović, J Wolf, SE Will, K Smalla… - Genome Biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Agrobacteria are important plant pathogens responsible for crown/cane gall and hairy root
diseases. Crown/cane gall disease is associated with strains carrying tumor-inducing (Ti) …

Effects of hematite on the dissemination of antibiotic resistance in pathogens and underlying mechanisms

S Wu, P Ren, Y Wu, J Liu, Q Huang, P Cai - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
The dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in pathogens is becoming a
pervasive global health threat, to which the importance of the environment attracts more and …

Insights into conjugative transfer of antibiotic resistance genes affected by soil minerals

S Wu, Y Wu, Q Huang, P Cai - European Journal of Soil …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Widespread antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) have caused critical threats to public health
on a global scale. Soil, composed mainly of minerals, acts as a source of resistance …