Potentially beneficial microorganisms have been inoculated into agricultural soils for years.
However, concurrent with sequencing advances and successful manipulation of host-…

This white paper presents a series of perspectives on current and future phytobiome
management, discussed at the Wild and Tamed Phytobiomes Symposium in University Park, PA, …

Among the biotic constraints of common mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) production, bacterial
blotch is considered the most important mushroom disease in terms of global prevalence …

The soft-agar overlay technique was originally developed over 70 years ago and has been
widely used in several areas of microbiological research, including work with bacteriophages …

Endohyphal bacteria (EHB) can influence fungal phenotypes and shape the outcomes of
plant-fungal interactions. Previous work has suggested that EHB form facultative associations …

… to known lysis genes or because lysis functions are provided in trans from prophage
region I, which harbors an active prophage (KL Hockett and DA Baltrus, unpublished results). …

… flagellum and thermo-regulation of syringafactin are independent of each other because
mutations affecting thermo-regulation of syfA do not influence thermo-regulation of fliC (Hockett …

Microbial community-based disease management approaches have the potential to substitute
or combine with currently employed strategies. Suppressive soils are great examples of …

Symbiosis with bacteria is widespread among eukaryotes, including fungi. Bacteria that live
within fungal mycelia (endohyphal bacteria) occur in many plant-associated fungi, including …

Phage tail-like bacteriocins (tailocins) are bacterially produced protein toxins that mediate
competitive interactions between cocolonizing bacteria. Both theoretical and experimental …