Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Cooperative interactions between seed-borne bacterial and air-borne fungal pathogens on rice

  • Boknam Jung,
  • Jungwook Park,
  • Namgyu Kim,
  • Taiying Li,
  • Soyeon Kim,
  • Laura E. Bartley,
  • Jinnyun Kim,
  • Inyoung Kim,
  • Yoonhee Kang,
  • Kihoon Yun,
  • Younghae Choi,
  • Hyun-Hee Lee,
  • Sungyeon Ji,
  • Kwang Sik Lee,
  • Bo Yeon Kim,
  • Jong Cheol Shon,
  • Won Cheol Kim,
  • Kwang-Hyeon Liu,
  • Dahye Yoon,
  • Suhkman Kim,
  • Young-Su Seo,
  • Jungkwan Lee

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02430-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Interactions between bacteria and fungi are common and contribute to ecosystem processes. Here, Jung et al. show that the interaction between two plant pathogens (a seed-borne bacterium and an air-borne fungus) promotes their own survival and dispersal, as well as disease progression on rice plants.