This study compares growth of Ruminococcus flavefaciens FD-1 with cellulose or cellobiose as the carbohydrate substrate. Ruminococcus flavefaciens is a predominant cellulolytic rumen bacterium, which forms a multi-enzyme cellulosome complex that could play an integral role in the ability of this bac...
Infection-related development of phytopathogenic fungi is initiated by sensing and responding to plant surface cues. This response results in the formation of specialized infection structures, so-called appressoria. To unravel the program inducing appressoria in the biotrophic smut fungus Ustilago m...
Pathogenicity of the phytopathogenic enterobacterium Erwinia chrysanthemi, the causative agent of soft rot disease in many plants, is a complex process involving several factors whose production is subject to temporal regulation during infection. After penetrating into its host plant, E. chrysanthem...
