Articles of Significant Interest in This Issue

摘要

The soil environment fosters extraordinary microbial diversity. These microbes often interact, likely forming complex multispecies biofilms. Bacillus subtilis and Pantoea agglomerans are two organisms that are found in the soil and colonize plant roots. Yannarell et al. (e€00670-18) determined that in coculture B. subtilis and P. agglomerans form a highly wrinkled biofilm structure that requires complementary matrix products from both species, which influences its overall viscoelastic behavior. The two species localized to specific regions of the biofilm, impacting survival in response to antibiotic treatment. These results suggest there are novel aspects of the formation and function of multispecies biofilm structures.