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Nature 411, 748-749 (14 June 2001) | doi:10.1038/35081216
Plant microbiology: Quieting the raucous crowd
Jared R. Leadbetter
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Abstract
Many bacteria communicate by using dedicated signalling molecules. Signal-degrading enzymes from other bacteria interrupt the conversation, and can protect tobacco and potato plants from infection.
Most of us have had occasion to reach into a refrigerator crisper drawer to sponge out the remnants of a wilted, slimy head of lettuce. One of the major culprits of this horror is Erwinia, a bacterium that also causes economically important wilts and soft-rots of crops.
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