▪ Abstract Quorum sensing (QS) allows bacteria to assess their local population density
and/or physical confinement via the secretion and detection of small, diffusible signal …

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 …

Bacterial blight and bacterial leaf streak are serious, economically damaging, diseases of
rice caused by the bacteria Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae and X. oryzae pv. oryzicola …

Many pathogenic bacteria use cell–cell signaling systems involving the synthesis and
perception of diffusible signal molecules to control virulence as a response to cell density or …

Extracellular signals are the key components of microbial cell–cell communication systems.
This report identified a diffusible signal factor (DSF), which regulates virulence in …

HD-GYP is a protein domain of unknown biochemical function implicated in bacterial
signaling and regulation. In the plant pathogen Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris, the …

It has become increasingly clear that bacterial cells can communicate with each other to
facilitate their adaptation to changing environmental conditions. This cell-cell communication …

Xylella fastidiosa, which causes Pierce's disease of grapevine and other important plant
diseases, is a xylem-limited bacterium that depends on insect vectors for transmission …

It is now clear that cell–cell communication, often referred to as quorum sensing (QS), is the
norm in the prokaryotic kingdom and this community-wide genetic regulatory mechanism …

Xanthomonas is a large genus of bacteria that collectively cause disease on more than 300
plant species. The broad host range of the genus contrasts with stringent host and tissue …