The plant stress hormone jasmonic acid evokes defensive responses in streptomycetes
A. van der Meij, S. S. Elsayed, C. Du, J. Willemse, T. M. Wood, N. I. Martin, J. M. Raaijmakers, G. van Wezel
This paper shows that plant hormones jasmonic acid and methyljasmonate alter growth, development, and antibiotic production in Streptomyces, with amino acid conjugation inactivating the hormone as a bacterial defense mechanism.
bioRxiv · Dec 23, 2022Microbiology