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ArticleBiofilm2020

Surfactin production is not essential for pellicle and root-associated biofilm development of

Maude Thérien, Heiko T Kiesewalter, Emile Auria, Vincent Charron-Lamoureux, Mario Wibowo, Gergely Maróti, Ákos T Kovács, Pascale B Beauregard

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Article in Biofilm, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Surfactin acceleratesBiofilm · 2025
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  16. Morphogenesis and mechanical properties ofCurrent research in microbial sciences · 2025
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  18. Biofilm · 2023
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  20. Surfactin and Spo0A-Dependent Antagonism byPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Maude ThérienCentre SÈVE, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada.
Heiko T KiesewalterBacterial Interactions and Evolution Group, DTU Bioengineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs Lyngby, Denmark.
Emile AuriaCentre SÈVE, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada.
Vincent Charron-LamoureuxCentre SÈVE, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada.
Mario WibowoNatural Product Discovery Group, DTU Bioengineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs Lyngby, Denmark.
Gergely MarótiInstitute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary.
Ákos T KovácsBacterial Interactions and Evolution Group, DTU Bioengineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs Lyngby, Denmark.
Pascale B BeauregardCentre SÈVE, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Secondary metabolites have an important impact on the biocontrol potential of soil-derived microbes. In addition, various microbe-produced chemicals have been suggested to impact the development and phenotypic differentiation of bacteria, including biofilms. The non-ribosomal synthesized lipopeptide of

Indexed as

Bacillus subtilisBiofilmPelliclePlant root colonizationSurfactin

Identifiers

PMID33447807
PMCPMC7798449

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