Karrikins from plant smoke modulate bacterial quorum sensing?

Chemical Communications Pub Date: 2013-11-07 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC47501H

Abstract

The discovery that plant smoke contains germination stimuli has led to the identification of a new class of signaling molecules named karrikins. Here we report a potential second role for these molecules: in various bacterial species – A. tumefaciens, P. aeruginosa and V. harveyi – they modulate bacterial quorum-sensing (QS), with very different outcomes.

Graphical abstract: Karrikins from plant smoke modulate bacterial quorum sensing
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