Project description:Pseudomonas fragi is the predominant bacterial species associated with spoiled aerobically stored chilled meat worldwide. It readily forms biofilms on meat under refrigerated temperature conditions used in meat industry. Biofilm growth leads to slime development on meat which becomes a major quality defect. In this research, RNA sequencing was carried out for the main stages of P. fragi strain 1793 grown on aerobically stored meat, kept at 10 °C. RNA was extracted at different stages of the biofilm cycle namely initiation, maturation and dispersal. The key objectives of this study was to investigate which genes are expressed at each of these stages as well as to understand the causes of P. fragi biofilm dipersal.
