Environmental microbiology: Attracting bacteria in the soil

Nature Reviews Microbiology 16, 122 (2018). doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2018.18 Author: Andrea Du Toit Plants release various secondary metabolites through their roots, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which have been implicated as antimicrobials or as chemoattractants. Here, the authors developed a glass olfactometer system in which bacteria that were inoculated at one end in a soil-containing glass tube could
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