Causes and Biophysical Consequences of Cellulose Production by Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 at the Air-Liquid Interface

Cellulose-overproducing wrinkly spreader mutants of Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 have been the focus of much investigation, but conditions promoting the production of cellulose in ancestral strain SBW25 and its effects and consequences have escaped in-depth investigation through lack of an in vitro phenotype. Here, using a custom-built device, we reveal that in static broth microcosms, ancestral SBW25 encounters environmental signals at the...