Plant responses to bacterial quorum sensing signals.
Bacterial infection of plants often depends on the exchange of quorum sensing signals between nearby bacterial cells. It is now evident that plants, in turn, 'listen' to these bacterial signals and respond in sophisticated ways to the information. Plants also secrete compounds that mimic the bacterial signals and thereby confuse quorum sensing regulation in bacteria.
Bauer
Wolfgang D
WD
Horticulture and Crop Science, 2021 Coffey Road, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA. bauer.7@osu.edu
Mathesius
Ulrike
U
D000818:Animals; D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D002265:Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D008954:Models, Biological; D008956:Models, Chemical; D018716:Molecular Mimicry; D010944:Plants / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000382:microbiology; D015398:Signal Transduction
D002265:Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases; C432003:N-acyl homoserine lactonase