Rhizobia are some of the best-studied plant microbiota. These oligotrophic
Alphaproteobacteria or Betaproteobacteria form symbioses with their legume hosts …

Approximately 10% of bacterial genomes are split between two or more large DNA
fragments, a genome architecture referred to as a multipartite genome. This multipartite …

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) plays an important role in the evolution of life on the Earth.
This view is supported by numerous occasions of HGT that are recorded in the genomes of …

Plant roots support the growth and activities of a wide variety of microorganisms that may
have a profound effect on the growth and/or health of plants. Among these microorganisms …

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 …

Covering: up to 2009 This review describes the chemistry of the bacterial biofilms including
the chemistry of their constituents and signalling compounds that mediate or inhibit the …

Members of the rhizobia are distinguished for their ability to establish a nitrogen-fixing
symbiosis with leguminous plants. While many details of this relationship remain a mystery …

Acyl-homoserine lactones are small neutral lipid molecules that bacteria in the
Proteobacteria group use to sense and signal their cell density. This signaling process …

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 …

Bacteria can regulate community‐wide behaviors including biofilm formation, virulence,
conjugation, sporulation, and swarming motility through a process called quorum sensing …