Attachment of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria to Plant Surfaces

摘要: Once a suitable location is reached by bacterium, the ability to resist removal becomes selective advantage. Motile bacteria move towards favor­ able locations chemotactic motility, whereas nonmotile arrive there more or less randomly. In different kinds of natural environments both motile and tend stick surfaces in order remain at favorable locations. This generalization holds true for animal pathogens (40), aquatic (24), as well most where nutrition limited risk cells being dislodged. Characteristics that influence infective potential an epiphytically growing bacterium include withstand drought, UV-radiation, physical from plant surface through action rain wind. Attachment bacterial foliage root early possibly significant step certain diseases may represent important factor epiphytic colonization, which probably increases capacity pathogenic strains cause disease. Bacterial genes gene products outcome infections have recently been reviewed (3, 14, 18, 42, 74). The role attachment plant-specific has mostly studied relation virulence pathogens. For some