| Literature DB >> 19704493 |
Marco Kai1, Anja Vespermann, Birgit Piechulla.
Abstract
Dual culture systems, which only allowed volatiles to cross the boundary of a bipartite Petri dish, were used to investigate the effects of bacterial volatiles on the growth of 14 fungi and A. thaliana. The majority of tested combinations exhibited dramatic growth retardations of fungi and A. thaliana, indicating that volatiles can act as antibiotics. It therefore can be concluded that bacterial volatiles influence the growth conditions of organisms in a community and in a habitat.Entities:
Keywords: A. thaliana; Pseudomonas trivialis; Serratia plymuthica; Staphylococcus epidermidis; bacterial volatiles; chemical communication; fungi
Year: 2008 PMID: 19704493 PMCID: PMC2634437 DOI: 10.4161/psb.3.7.5681
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Plant Signal Behav ISSN: 1559-2316