Bacterial analogs of plant piperidine alkaloids mediate microbial interactions in a rhizosphere model system
G. L. Lozano, H. B. Park, J. I. Bravo, E. A. Armstrong, J. M. Denu, E. V. Stabb, N. A. Broderick, J. M. Crawford, J. Handelsman
The paper identifies a novel family of bacterial piperidine alkaloids produced by Pseudomonas koreensis that mediate inter-bacterial competition in the rhizosphere, showing convergent evolution with plant alkaloids.
bioRxiv · Dec 19, 2018Microbiology