Metabolic versatility and antibacterial metabolite biosynthesis are distinguishing genomic features of the fire blight antagonist Pantoea vagans C9-1.

<h4>Background</h4>Pantoea vagans is a commercialized biological control agent used against the pome fruit bacterial disease fire blight, caused by Erwinia amylovora. Compared to other biocontrol agents, relatively little is currently known regarding Pantoea genetics. Better understandin...

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Main Authors: Theo H M Smits, Fabio Rezzonico, Tim Kamber, Jochen Blom, Alexander Goesmann, Carol A Ishimaru, Jürg E Frey, Virginia O Stockwell, Brion Duffy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21789243/pdf/?tool=EBI