About Bacteria & Plants: How do they interact?

Both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria infect a wide variety of economically important plants worldwide. Survival and persistence under adverse abiotic conditions and successful colonization of plants depends on a complex arsenal of signal transduction pathways, capacities to acquire and use nutrients, ways to counterbalance harmful or competitive microbes, abilities to suppress plant defense responses, activities of stress-responsive factors, etc. On the other side, vascular plants as the dominant type of land plants have adapted to diverse habitats. However, being sessile, they are exposed to different and sometimes harsh environmental conditions, which includes interactions with microbes, being harmful or beneficial. They have therefore evolved sophisticated mechanisms to resist harmful bacteria or to live in commensalistic or even mutualistic symbiosis.

This content collection is dedicated to research on the biological interaction between plants and bacteria, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic. We invite submissions (e.g., original research articles, short communications, technical advancements, opinion pieces and reviews) on molecular mechanisms of symbiosis, pathogenicity, defence, and resistance, including but not limited to comparative and functional omics, genetic screens, structural biology, genome editing. Time-sensitive research that requires rapid publication is particularly encouraged for submission.

Keywords: Bacteria; Symbiosis; Pathogenicity; Virulence; Effector; Plant resistance; Innate immunity; Comparative genomics; Functional genomics; Genome editing; Antagonism

Submission deadline: This Collection is now closed for submissions.

This collection is part of Plant Science Gateway.

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