Ji-Rong Zhao

Signal competition versus metabolic inhibition: Divergent fates of antibiotic resistance genes under N-acyl-L-homoserine lactone-targeted quorum quenching in composting.

Quorum sensing (QS) mediates biofilm formation and antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) transfer via signaling molecules, yet whether disrupting QS via quorum quenching restrains ARG dissemination during composting remains unclear. Here, vanillin and eugenol were supplemented at the beginning and mature stages to regulate...