Biocommunication in Soil Microorganisms
Communication is defined as an interaction between at least two living agents which share a repertoire of signs. These are combined according to syntactic, semantic and context-dependent, pragmatic rules in order to coordinate behavior. This volume deals
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Biocommunication in Soil Microorganisms
Editor Gu¨nther Witzany Telos-Philosophische Praxis Vogelsangstr. 18c 5111-Bu¨rmoos Austria [email protected]
ISSN 1613-3382 ISBN 978-3-642-14511-7 e-ISBN 978-3-642-14512-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-14512-4 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010938002
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Preface
Why Biocommunication of Soil Microorganisms? Although research on signal-mediated interactions of microorganisms – especially prokaryotes – in the ocean is a broad field of investigation, research on communication between soil microorganisms is not as well developed in comparison. This contradicts the importance of the roles of soil bacteria on parasitic and symbiotic interactions with plants, animals, and fungi in dry, wetland, and wasteland ecologies and in flood waters and their consequences on terrestrial life. Additionally, it is equally important to investigate the main sources of genetic innovation, exchange, and storage of soil bacteria (such as decomposers, nitrogen fixers, disease suppressors, aerobes, anaerobes, actinobacteria, and sulfur oxidizers), i.e., the roles of phages, plasmids, and related genetic parasites. Focusing on these viral colonizers and viral-derived regulatory elements of all prokaryotic life is important because they determine the interactional competences of soil bacteria and their group identity, i.e., their competence in producing and emitting shared signal molecules, interpreting incoming messages via appropriate receptors, measuring them, and generating appropriate response behaviors. Although these factors have been investigated by physiological, chemical, and mechanistic perspectives, it has become increasingly clear that signal-mediated interactions, i.e., biocommunication processes, additionally rely on semiotic rules that ha
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