Acknowledgement

Thanks God, the merciful and the passionate, for providing me the opportunity
to step in the excellent world of science.To be able to step strong and smooth in this
way, I have also been supported and supervised by many people to whom I would
like to express my deepest gratitude.
Shiraz was the first place in which I was educated in the alphabet of plant
protection. It is always nice remembering the excellent times of the lessons by plant
pathologists and how this sweet experience moved me toward the study of the
plant pathogens.Tehran University became my second home after seeing the world
through the test tubes in the molecular bacteriology lab.
In 2003, after being awarded a scholarship by the ministry of Science, Research
and Technology of Iran, I found myself a new home, Utrecht. In my new home
I made a lot of new friends who helped me and my family in every step of my
scientific progress and life. I am indebted to you all from the bottom of my heart.
I believe that I would not be able to name everyone separately and to thank for
everything that they did for me, however I would like to take the opportunity and
express a few words of thanks to my best colleagues and friends.

Special thanks and gratitude to:

Prof. Kees Van Loon: for his support from the beginning of my stay in
Utrecht, supervision, correction of manuscripts, kind invitations to his house, and
excellent hospitality. Ada thank to you too for the hospitality and the nice present
for Parsa.
Dr. Peter Bakker: for his support and good care of me and my family,
supervision, helps with the experiments, correction of manuscripts, kind invitation
to his house, cooking excellent foods with special care for us (Halal), help in our
moves from house to house, and friendship. Boet thank to you too for the hospitality
in your house and the nice presents for the birthday of Parsa.
Prof. Corné Pieterse: for invitations and hospitalities in his house, reading
my manuscript and his support as the head of the Plant-Microbe Interaction group.
Lisette thanks to you too for the hospitality in your house and the nice present
for Parsa.
Dr. Jesus Mercado-Blanco: for the excellent help in the experiments,
sharing your results with me, and reading and correcting my first manuscript and
very useful discussions on the work.
Prof. Walter Gams: for his great support in all the stages of our stay in the
Netherlands, showing us the beauties of the Netherlands, Bomarzo and Rome
(Italy), and Brugge (Belgium), his warm invitations to his place, all the nice presents

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from all over the world. Sophia special thanks to you too for the invitations to
your house and art galleries, hospitality, good care of our special diets (Halal), and
friendship. Hedi and Jos special thanks to you for the excellent support at the time
that I was writing my thesis. My family and I all cordially thank you for taking care
of Parsa.
Prof. Jean Marie Meyer: for the purification and characterization of
pseudobactin molecules and for performing IEF experiments.
Mr. Cees Versluis: Special thanks to you for running the samples of
pseudomonine on the mass spectrometry facilities in your department, for your
help to characterize the pseudobactin molecule of WCS374, and reading and
commenting on the manuscript.
Prof. Monica Höfte: for her excellent discussions and support of our research,
and collaboration our common interest, iron-regulated metabolites, and reading my
manuscripts.
Mr. David De Vleesschauwer: for his excellent discussions and collaboration
in studying the role of iron-regulated metabolites produced by rhizobacteria on
induced systemic resistance.
Mrs. Tamsin Grantham: for the help during her internship in the lab and the
greenhouse, and for running the HPLC.
Mrs. Agnieszka Ciechocinska: for excellent help during her stay (holidays!)
in Utrecht, and the nice present. I cordially thank you for the long days that you spent
in the greenhouse and lab, during the weeks and in many weekends.
Dr. Jos Raaijmakers: for excellent discussions on the project.
Mr. Hans Van Pelt: for making excellent photographs and good care of the
greenhouse facilities and labs.
Mr. Ientse Van der Sluis and Mrs Ruth Joosten and Kerstin Gühl: for
their help in the lab and the greenhouse.
Mr. Fred Siesling, Bas Valstar, and Roel Vonk: for the excellent helps
and cares of the greenhouse facilities and our plants during the weeks and in the
weekends.
Prof. Rens Voeseneck: for kind invitations to his house and hospitality
(group social gatherings with their families), and providing a warm environment
for Zohreh to perform her study in his lab. Special thanks to his wife and family for
the hospitalities and nice presents for us.
Technical department of the Wentgebouw specially Misha: for his help and
patience to fix and keep our HPLC system running.
Dr. Henri Groeneveld: for showing us the beauty of Dutch tulips in
Keukenhof and commercial greenhouses in Rotterdam, and the nice present for
the birthday of Parsa.
Mr. Rob Welschen and his wife Lisette: for warm invitations to their house,
giving the feeling of being with family here, delicious dishes and nice presents.

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 Mr. Pieter Van Dorp: for his excellent job in prepararing my posters and his
golden touch and patience in drawing the chemical structures for my thesis.
Mrs. Helene Eijkelenboom and Petra van den Beemt-Rasch: for their
help in the secretary of the department.
Master and PhD students and postdocs in the lab: for their help, friendship,
useful discussions, and presents for the birthday of my son. I would like to thank
and acknowledge every one of you. We had nice times, stories, humor, which
will be always in my memory. Jurriaan, Sjoerd, Annemart, Adriaan, Marieke,
Mareike, Antonio, Bart, Martin, Bas, Tita, Rogier, Roeland, Vivian, Elvira,
Maria, Wendy, David (Weller), Irene, Ronald, Reinier, Chiel, Daniel,
Maarten, Wouter, Tale, Jet, Floor, Mireille, Kristian, Frank, and Saskia and
their families.
Prof.s Banihashemi and Rahimian: for their help and advise during my
stay in the Netherlands.
Dr.s Piri, Rahmati, and Abdollahi, scientific representative of Iranian
students in Europe: for their help and support.Thank to the officers of the ministry
of Science, Research and Technology (MSRT) of Iran for their help.
MSRT of Iran and Shiraz University: for financially supporting my family,
me and my project.
My Iranian friends and their families: for their help and friendship. Mehdi,
Hossein, Rahim, Ramin, Hamid, Nasrin, Parisa, Shahram, Esmaeil, Mehdi,
Mahnaz, Ali, Houshang, Hassan, Hadi, Mohammad Javad, Hamid Reza,
Seyyed Hossein, Saeid, Akbar.
My father, mother, brother, sisters and their families: for the support,
understanding, help, and encouragement. I would love to cordially express my
gratitude for all of your support.
My -in laws (father, mother, brother, and sisters): for the support, help,
and encouragement. I would like to express my best and special thanks for all of
your support.
Zohreh and Parsa, my wife and son: for their patience, help, constant support,
understanding, love, and helpful discussions. You two with your support made this
achievement joyful and an excellent experience for me. I see myself unable to even
express my feelings about the love and patience that I observed from you. Thanks
for everything.

Mohammad Djavaheri
Utrecht, The Netherands

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