Inhaltsangabe1. Common Themes and Specific Features in the Genomes of Phytopathogenic and Plant-Beneficial Bacteria Marco Scortichini and Elena Katsy2. Ecology and Physiology of Non-Frankia Actinobacteria Associated with Actinorhizal Plants Faten Ghodhbane-Gtari and Louis S. Tisa3. Boundaries for Conjugative Transfer of Rhizobial Plasmids: Restraining and Releasing Factors Susana Brom, Mariano Pistorio, David Romero and Gonzalo Torres-Tejerizo4. Phase Variation in Plant-Associated Pseudomonads Francisco Martínez-Granero, Miguel Redondo-Nieto, Marta Martín and Rafael Rivilla5. Plasmid Rearrangements and Changes in Cell-Surface Architecture and Social Behavior of Azospirillum brasilense Elena I. Katsy6. Genome Plasticity and Dynamic Evolution of Phytopathogenic Pseudomonads and Related Bacteria Marco Scortichini, Simone Marcelletti, Milena Petriccione, Patrizia Ferrante, Emanuela Torelli and Giuseppe Firrao7. Genomic Flux in Xanthomonas Group of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Samriti Midha and Prabhu B. Patil8. Genome Plasticity in Obligate Parasitic Phytoplasmas Naghmeh Nejat and Yee-How Tan9. Comparative Genomics of Herbaspirillum Species Rose Adele Monteiro, Leonardo Magalhães Cruz, Roseli Wassem, Marcelo Muller, Rodrigo Cardoso, Fábio de Oliveira Pedrosa, Leda Satie Chubatsu, Euan K. James and Emanuel Maltempi de Souza

Prof. Dr. Elena I. Katsy Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants and Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saratov, Russia