Siderophores of the Pseudomonadaceae sensu stricto (fluorescent and non-fluorescent Pseudomonas spp.).

Abstract

No other bacterial genus has been brought into context with so many different aspects of public interest as that of Pseudomonas (439): Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the germ responsible for most hospital infections (40a) being increasingly resistant against all common antibiotics (180,394); a Pseudomonas sp. is blamed to be the true culprit for the production of tetrodotoxin, the deadly poison of the Japanese pufferfish (521); Pseudomonas (Ralstonia) solanacearum destroys crops and is so dangerous that a special periodical, the “Bacterial Wilt Newsletter”1 was founded in order to deal with this problem; other Pseudomonas spp. increase the harvest of important nutritional plants (366); Pseudomonas tolaasii makes cultivated mushrooms unmarketable (468); Pseudomonas syringae besides infecting many plants helps in the Alps to prolong the skiing season (298); Pseudomonas putida assists us by degrading our toxic waste (i.e. aromatic and chlorinated compounds) (16,83,306), Pseudomonas chlororaphis attacks plastics, especially polyurethanes, and that not only in waste dumps (207) but also as a warfare agent proposed to destroy the protective layers of aircraft against radar detection;2 and the enzyme systems of Pseudomonas putida are used for stereospecific organic syntheses(209).