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
Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology - Category: Microbiology Authors: Andrea Du Toit Tags: Research Highlight Source Type: research