Implication of Quorum Sensing and Biofilm Formation in Medicine, Agriculture and Food Industry
The book illustrates the role of quorum sensing in the food industry, agriculture, veterinary sciences, and medicine. It highlights the importance of quorum sensing in regulating diverse cellular functions in microbes, including virulence, pathogenesis, c
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Implication of Quorum Sensing and Biofilm Formation in Medicine, Agriculture and Food Industry
Implication of Quorum Sensing and Biofilm Formation in Medicine, Agriculture and Food Industry
Pallaval Veera Bramhachari Editor
Implication of Quorum Sensing and Biofilm Formation in Medicine, Agriculture and Food Industry
Editor Pallaval Veera Bramhachari Department of Biotechnology Krishna University Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
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Preface
In the last decade, progress on the knowledge of bacterial quorum sensing and biofilm formation has been advanced exponentially. Bacteria have intriguing and diverse social lives. It is a unique phenomenon where microbes communicate and synchronize their behavior by the accumulation of (AHL) signaling molecules. A reaction occurs when AHL accumulates to an adequate concentration. They exhibit coordinated group behaviors regulated by QS systems that detect the density of other bacteria around them. Explicitly, QS is the chemical communication process wherein bacteria coordinate changes in their collective behavior in response to population density. The regulation of social behavior in several bacteria is fundamental to QS phenomenon in medicine, food industry, and agriculture including biofilm formation and the expression of virulence in dreadful pathogens to symbiotic relationships. A contemporary challenge in the field is to comprehend how QS works in scenarios that mimic real host environments. The current research suggests that
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