Cooperative colonization of the host and pathogen dissemination involves stochastic and spatially structured expression of virulence traits
Nieves López-Pagán, José S. Rufián, Julien Luneau, María-Antonia Sánchez-Romero, Laurent Aussel, Simon van Vliet, Javier Ruiz-Albert, Carmen R. Beuzón
The paper examines phenotypic heterogeneity in Pseudomonas syringae during plant colonization, showing stochastic and spatially structured expression of virulence traits and their role in bacterial cooperation and dissemination.
bioRxiv · Mar 12, 2024Microbiology