Cross-kingdom signalling regulates spore germination in the moss Physcomitrella patens.

ABSTRACT: Plants live in close association with microorganisms that can have beneficial or detrimental effects. The activity of bacteria in association with flowering plants has been extensively analysed. Bacteria use quorum-sensing as a way of monitoring their population density and interacting with their environment. A key group of quorum sensing molecules in Gram-negative bacteria are the N-acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs), which are known to affect the growth and development of both flowering plants, including crops, and marine algae. Thus, AHLs have potentially important roles in agriculture and aquaculture. Nothing is known about the effects of AHLs on the earliest-diverging land plants, thus the evolution of AHL-mediated bacterial-plant/algal interactions is unknown. In this paper, we show that

SUBMITTER: Vesty EF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7018845 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature