Can Proteobacteria and Burkholderiales being Gram-negative (thin cell wall) be easily destroyed by antimicrobial producing Gram-positive genera for instance Actinobacteria and Salinospora in soil?
Souptik Bhattacharya
The scarcity of nutrition often leads to the competitive growth among microbes. Production of antibiotics to kill other food competitors is a well-known strategy for bacterial survival. However, soil is enriched with vast nutrients and solid-semisolid-brittle in nature with controlled moisture. So, complete eradication of gram negatives may not be possible due to un-uniformed nutrient/antibiotic transport into the microbe cells present throughout the soil.
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