Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 40(50), p. 5322-5325, 2014
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc47501h
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The discovery that plant smoke contains germination stimuli has led to the identification of a new class of signaling molecules named karrikins. Here we report a potential second role for these molecules: in various bacterial species - A. tumefaciens, P. aeruginosa and V. harveyi - they modulate bacterial quorum-sensing (QS), with very different outcomes.