Transgenic Plants Producing the Bacterial Pheromone <i>N</i>-Acyl-Homoserine Lactone Exhibit Enhanced Resistance to the Bacterial Phytopathogen <i>Erwinia carotovora</i>

Andres Mäe, Marcos Montesano, Viia Köiv, +1

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

BiologyPlant ImmunityTransgenic PlantsBiosynthesisEngineering +13

Quorum Sensing in the Plant Pathogen <i>Erwinia carotovora</i> subsp. <i>carotovora</i>: The Role of <i>expR_Ecc</i>

Robert Andersson, A Eriksson, Riikka Heikinheimo, +6

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Isolation of an extracellular protease gene of Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora strain SCC3193 by transposon mutagenesis and the role of protease in phytopathogenicity

Reet Marits, Viia Köiv, Eve Laasik, +1

Microbiology

EngineeringPrtd ProteinsGeneticsPlant PathologyMolecular Genetics +14

Microbial population dynamics in response to Pectobacterium atrosepticum infection in potato tubers

Viia Köiv, Märt Roosaare, Eve Vedler, +6

Scientific Reports

A Two-Component Regulatory System, <i>pehR-pehS</i>, Controls Endopolygalacturonase Production and Virulence in the Plant Pathogen <i>Erwinia carotovora</i> subsp. <i>carotovora</i>

Diana Flego, Reet Marits, A Eriksson, +4

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

BiologyControls Endopolygalacturonase ProductionPlant ImmunityPlant-microbe InteractionGenetics +11

Quorum sensing controls the synthesis of virulence factors by modulating rsmA gene expression in Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora

Viia Köiv, Asuquo AE

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

BiologyBiosynthesisQuorum SensingRsma Gene ExpressionPlant-microbe Interaction +6

Analysis of the 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid-degradative plasmid pEST4011 of Achromobacter xylosoxidans subsp. denitrificans strain EST4002

Eve Vedler, Viia Köiv, Ain Heinaru

Gene

BiochemistryExtremophileBacteriologyMicrobial PhysiologyMicrobial Ecology +6

Role and Regulation of the Flp/Tad Pilus in the Virulence of Pectobacterium atrosepticum SCRI1043 and Pectobacterium wasabiae SCC3193

Johanna Nykyri, Laura Mattinen, Outi Niemi, +8

PLoS ONE

Biogenesis GenesGeneticsFlp/tad PilusBacteriologyPlant Pathology +14

Characterization of a new 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid degrading plasmid pEST4011: physical map and localization of catabolic genes

Andres Mäe, Reet Marits, Nora Ausmees, +2

Journal of General Microbiology

BiosynthesisBiochemistryPhysical MapGeneticsPlasmid Pest4011 +13

Role of RpoS in virulence and stress tolerance of the plant pathogen Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora The GenBank accession number for the sequences determined in this work is AJ238884.

Robert Andersson, Viia Köiv, Cecilia Norman-Setterblad, +1

Microbiology

Environmental StressGeneticsPlant PathologyBacterial PathogensPlant-pathogen Interaction +16