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                         <div class="text">All soils have a unique, diverse microbial community</div>
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                         <div class="text">Within each microbial community there are many microbes with useful abilities </div>
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                         <div class="text">Within each community are microbes with useful abilities</div>
 
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                         <div class="text">The bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens lives in plant roots and helps them to grow</div>
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                         <div class="text">Bacteria that live harmlessly within plant tissues are known as endophytes</div>
 
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                         <div class="text">By introducing new genes for our Pseudomonas to express we can influence the microbial community</div>
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                         <div class="text">By engineering endophytic bacteria - rather than the plant - we may influence the microbial community</div>
 
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                         <div class="text">We can attract or repel certain species in any way desired </div>
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                         <div class="text">The endophytes ay be programmed to attract or repel other microbial species</div>
 
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                         <div class="text">In our case, we use flavonoids to attract free-living nitrogen fixers, that convert nitrogen gas to nitrate for plant growth</div>
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                         <div class="text">Biosynthesis of signalling chemicals may attract free-living nitrogen fixing bacteria, reducing the need for synthetic fertilisers</div>
 
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                         <div class="text">P. fluorescens has many other abilities, including the ability to repel parasitic nematode worms [1], produce antifungals and insecticides [2] and induce plant stress tolerance [3]</div>
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                         <div class="text">Endophytic chassis organisms could be used to produce antifungal or insecticidal chemicals or to directly affect plant stress tolerance</div>
 
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Soils contain diverse microbial communities
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Within each community are microbes with useful abilities
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Bacteria that live harmlessly within plant tissues are known as endophytes
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By engineering endophytic bacteria - rather than the plant - we may influence the microbial community
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The endophytes ay be programmed to attract or repel other microbial species
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Biosynthesis of signalling chemicals may attract free-living nitrogen fixing bacteria, reducing the need for synthetic fertilisers
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Endophytic chassis organisms could be used to produce antifungal or insecticidal chemicals or to directly affect plant stress tolerance

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