SynCom of maize root bacteria: in team work, they detox differently. Interacting they redirect the metabolisation to an alternative degradation product.
Credits: @lisathoenen.bsky.social, Dr. Christine Pestalozzi & teams @unibas.ch and @unibe.ch.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
We investigated how maize root bacteria—alone or in community—tolerate and metabolize
antimicrobial compounds of their host plant. We found that the capacity to metabolize
such a compound impacts bact...
