A great candidate to study microbial interactions is the emerging technique Imaging Mass Spectrometry (Imaging MS) that allows the in situ and real time monitoring of chemical compounds directly on biological samples such as petri dishes and tissues of animals, plants and fungi, enabling the monitoring of chemical compounds while the interacting organisms are in contact. Although Imaging MS exploitation is still in...

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Microbial genetics predict that the natural products we have discovered so far are only the tip of the iceberg, thus the antibiotics and biopesticides of the future may be still hidden in the huge biosynthetic potential of microorganisms. In fact, many natural compounds remain invisible under standard laboratory conditions, but their biosynthesis can be triggered by re-establishing the structure of their native community...

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