
Inferring the rules of social interaction in migrating caribou. Torney CJ, Lamont M, Debell L, Angohiatok RJ, Leclerc LM, Berdahl AM. Rules of Collective Migration: From the wildebeest to the neural crest: Rules of neural crest migration. On the motion of small particles suspended in liquids at rest required by the molecular-kinetic theory of heat. Whole plant-environment microscopy reveals how Bacillus subtilis utilises the soil pore space to colonise plant roots. Liu Y, Patko D, Engelhardt IC, George TS, Stanley-Wall NP, Ladmiral V. Temporal dynamics of soil virus and bacterial populations in agricultural and early plant successional soils. Roy K, Ghosh D, DeBruyn JM, Dasgupta T, Wommack KE, Liang X, et al. Plant growth-promoting bacteria as inoculants in agricultural soils.

Biocontrol of Bacillus subtilis against infection of arabidopsis roots by Pseudomonas syringae is facilitated by biofilm formation and surfactin production. A field guide to bacterial swarming motility. Erratum: Hydrodynamics and collective behavior of the tethered bacterium Thiovulum majus. Directed collective motion of bacteria under channel confinement. Collective hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms: Living fluids.

Live imaging of root-bacteria interactions in a microfluidics setup. Massalha H, Korenblum E, Malitsky S, Shapiro OH, Aharoni A. Bacillus subtilis early colonization of Arabidopsis thaliana roots involves multiple chemotaxis receptors. 2013 110:1621–30.Īllard-Massicotte R, Tessier L, Lécuyer F, Lakshmanan V, Lucier J. Bacillus subtilis Biofilm induction by plant polysaccharides. 2018 217:69–80.īeauregard PB, Yunrong C, Vlamakis H, Losick R, Kolter R. Enhanced molecular visualization of root colonization and growth promotion by Bacillus subtilis EA-CB0575 in different growth systems. Posada LF, Álvarez JC, Romero-Tabarez M, de-Bashan L, Villegas-Escobar V. Social behaviours by Bacillus subtilis: Quorum sensing, kin discrimination and beyond. Kalamara M, Spacapan M, Mandic-Mulec I, Stanley-Wall NR. Bacterial Motility: Links to the environment and a driving force for microbial physics. Swarming motility plays the major role in migration during tomato root colonization by Bacillus subtilis SWR01. Chemotaxis strategies of bacteria with multiple run modes. 2019 49:7–17.Īlirezaeizanjani Z, Großmann R, Pfeifer V, Hintsche M, Beta C. Beyond pathogens: Microbiota interactions with the plant immune system. Teixeira PJ, Colaianni NR, Fitzpatrick CR, Dangl JL. Rhizosphere size and shape: Temporal dynamics and spatial stationarity. Our findings advance understanding of bacterial migration through soil matrices and expand known behaviours for coordinated bacterial movement. subtilis flocks are likely driven by the diffusion of extracellular signalling molecules (e.g., chemotaxis, quorum sensing) and may be impacted by the physical obstacles and hydrodynamics encountered in the soil like environment. subtilis cells moved through transparent soil (nafion polymer with particle size resembling sand) toward plant roots and re-arranged dynamically around root tips in the form of elongating and retracting “flocks” resembling collective behaviour usually associated with higher organisms (e.g., bird flocks or fish schools). subtilis cells exhibiting “crowd movement”.

In this study, time-lapse images collected using live microscopy techniques captured collective and coordinated groups of B. Although migrations are essential for soil microorganisms to exploit scarce and heterogeneously distributed resources, bacterial mobility in soil remains poorly studied due to experimental limitations.
