Microbial Siderophores

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Varma, Ajit (Editor), Chincholkar, Sudhir B. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Soil Biology, 12
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Microbiology.; Sedimentology.; Agriculture.; Plant biochemistry.; Plant pathology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Pathology.; Plant Biochemistry.; Applied Microbiology.

In response to low iron availability in the environment most microorganisms synthesize iron chelators, called siderophores. Bacteria and fungi produce a broad range of structurally diverse siderophores, which all show a very high affinity for ferric ions. "Microbial Siderophores" presents...

Table of Contents:

• Fungal Siderophores: Structure, Functions and Regulation
• Siderotyping and Bacterial Taxonomy: A Siderophore Bank for a Rapid Identification at the Species Level of Fluorescent and Non-Fluorescent Pseudomonas
• Siderotyping, a Tool to Characterize, Classify and Identify Fluorescent Pseudomonads
• Siderophores of Symbiotic Fungi
• Protein-mediated Siderophore Uptake in Gram-negative Bacteria: A Structural Perspective
• Competition for Iron and Induced Systemic Resistance by Siderophores of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria
• Pyoverdine Synthesis and its Regulation in Fluorescent Pseudomonads
• Implication of Pyoverdines in the Interactions of Fluorescent Pseudomonads with Soil Microflora and Plant in the Rhizosphere
• Pseudomonas Siderophores and their Biological Significance
• Microbial Siderophores in Human and Plant Health-Care
• Biotechnological Production of Siderophores
• Microbial Siderophore: A State of Art.