The bacterial genus Pantoea comprises many versatile species that have been isolated from
a multitude of environments. Pantoea was delineated as a genus approximately 25 years …

Plants are functional macrobes living in a close association with diverse communities of
microbes and viruses as complex systems that continuously interact with the surrounding …

Background The Gaussian or normal distribution is the most established model to
characterize quantitative variation of original data. Accordingly, data are summarized using …

Pathogenic bacteria interact not only with the host organism but most probably also with the
resident microbial flora. In the knot disease of the olive tree (Olea europaea), the causative …

Metagenomic sequencing and multi-omic technologies have greatly advanced our
understanding of the microbiome of fruit crops and revealed the complex interactions that …

There is an increasing interest in studying interspecies bacterial interactions in diseases of
animals and plants as it is believed that the great majority of bacteria found in nature live in …

P seudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi is the causal agent of olive (O lea europaea) knot
disease and an unorthodox member of the P. syringae complex, causing aerial tumours …

Main conclusion The review provides information on the mechanisms underlying the
development of spontaneous and pathogen-induced tumors in higher plants. The activation …

Microbial life on plant leaves is characterized by a multitude of interactions between leaf
colonizers and their environment. While the existence of many of these interactions has …

Although the great majority of bacteria found in nature live in multispecies communities,
microbiological studies have focused historically on single species or competition and …