19 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the Enzyme ACC
Deaminase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Shimaila Ali and Bernard R. Glick
20 The Diazotroph as an Endophyte and How a Diazotroph Interacts
with Its Plant Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Se-Chul Chun
21 The Hologenome Hypothesis and Its Application to Plant-Microbe
Interactions on an Evolutionary Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
S. Kouas, N. Khan, and A. M. Hirsch
22 Beneficial Role of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria in
Bioremediation of Heavy Metal(loid)-Contaminated Agricultural
Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Krishnendu Pramanik, Sandipan Banerjee, Debosmita Mukherjee,
Kunal Kumar Saha, Tushar Kanti Maiti,
and Narayan Chandra Mandal
23 Defensive Microbiomes: A Widespread Phenomenon in Nature . . . 497
Sarah Worsley
24 Coevolution of Molluscs and Their Microbes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
Aide Lasa and Jesús L. Romalde
25 Invisible Interactions between Microorganisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Kenji Ueda
Part VI Microbial Symbiosis as a Driving Force in Evolution
26 The Game of Evolution Is Won by Competitive Cheating . . . . . . . . 545
Christon J. Hurst
27 The Importance of Being Symbiont and the Role of Symbiosis
as a Driving Force in Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
Francisco Carrapiço
28 Viruses, Underestimated Drivers of Ecology and Evolution
of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613
Antje Lauer
29 Coevolution of Bryophytes and their Associated
Microorganisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627
Guillermo Reboledo and Inés Ponce de León
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