Streptomyces genetics in the 1990s.

CONCLUSIONS: The 1980s were a fertile time for research inStreptomyces molecular genetics. Many important questions and possibilities have been raised. In the 1990s it should therefore be possible to formulate many very attractive research proposals, and this decade should witness a full flowering of knowledge about these fascinating bacteria. This will mean that generalizations about the molecular biology of prokaryotes will be put on a much firmer footing than has hitherto been possible with studies largely confined to rapidly growing unicellular organisms such asE. coli andB. subtilis.