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. 2017 Apr 25;114(17):4281-4283.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1703800114. Epub 2017 Apr 4.

Shining a light on the dark world of plant root-microbe interactions

Philip Poole  1
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Shining a light on the dark world of plant root-microbe interactions

Philip Poole. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
A cartoon of a root is shown where two bacteria, B. subtilis (in red) and E. coli (in blue), are competing to attach to A. thaliana. B. subtilis has been shown by TRIS to accumulate rapidly at the root elongation zone with later accumulation occurring higher up the root. Arrows and question marks highlight what might happen in steps subsequent to accumulation at the root elongation zone because the order of events is not clear, particularly in soil where the root will be occupied by existing bacteria in biofilms. Bacteria in biofilms are shown without flagella to indicate that motility is usually suppressed at the sessile stage of biofilm formation.
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