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Pseudomonas species can be found in a wide variety of environments; in association with animals and plants and in water. This is a consequence of their ability to use for their metabolism a great number of different compounds and to synthesize for different purposes many secondary metabolites like complex aromatic molecules and unusual amino acids and peptides. These properties together with the great stability of the organism are the reason why Pseudomonas spp. have become one of the major groups of colonizers of the plant-root. Many of the rhizosphere-Pseudomonas species are known plant-pathogens but more recently a number of root-associated fluorescent Pseudomonas strains have received increasing attention because of their ability to benefit plant growth. (Kloepper et al., 1980: Geels and Schippers, 1983a, Geels and Schippers, 1983b).
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Weisbeek, P.J., van der Hofstad, G.A.J.M., Schippers, B., Marugg, J.D. (1986). Genetic Analysis of the Iron-Uptake System of Two Plant Groups Promoting Pseudomonas Strains. In: Swinburne, T.R. (eds) Iron, Siderophores, and Plant Diseases. NATO ASI Series, vol 117. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9480-2_32
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