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Photorhabdus luminescens LN2 requires rpoS for nematicidal activity and nematode development.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Mar 2016
Qiu Xuehong, Wu Chunyan, Cao Li, Ehlers Ralf-Udo, Han Richou
Abstract excerpt
Photorhabdus (Enterobacteriaceae) bacteria are pathogenic to insects and mutualistic with entomopathogenic Heterorhabditis nematodes. Photorhabdus luminescens subsp. akhurstii LN2, associated with Heterorhabditis indica LN2, shows nematicidal activity against H. bacteriophora H06 infective juveniles (IJs). In the present study, an rpoS mutant of P. luminescens LN2 was generated through allelic exchange to examine...
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