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NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 7, Issue 7, Pages 514-525Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2163
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Austrian Science Foundation FWF
- INTAS project [04-82-6969]
- US Department of Energy, Office of Science, BER [KP1102010, DE-AC02-98CH10886]
- Laboratory Directed Research and Development funds [LDRD05-063, LDRD09-005]
- Royalty Funds
- Wellcome Trust
- British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
- Science Foundation of Ireland [SFI 03/IN3/B373, 07/IN.1/B955]
- Department of Energy's Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program
- University of California
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [DE-AC52-07NA27344]
- Los Alamos National Laboratory [DE-AC02-06NA25396]
- Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) [07/IN.1/B955] Funding Source: Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P 20542] Funding Source: researchfish
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The genus Stenotrophomonas comprises at least eight species. These bacteria are found throughout the environment, particularly in close association with plants. Strains of the most predominant species, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, have an extraordinary range of activities that include beneficial effects for plant growth and health, the breakdown of natural and man-made pollutants that are central to bioremediation and phytoremediation strategies and the production of biomolecules of economic value, as well as detrimental effects, such as multidrug resistance, in human pathogenic strains. Here, we discuss the versatility of the bacteria in the genus Stenotrophomonas and the insight that comparative genomic analysis of clinical and endophytic isolates of S. maltophilia has brought to our understanding of the adaptation of this genus to various niches.
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