Acquisition and evolution of plant pathogenesis-associated gene clusters and candidate determinants of tissue-specificity in xanthomonas.

Xanthomonas is a large genus of plant-associated and plant-pathogenic bacteria. Collectively, members cause diseases on over 392 plant species. Individually, they exhibit marked host- and tissue-specificity. The determinants of this specificity are unknown.To assess potential contributions to host-...

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Main Authors: Hong Lu, Prabhu Patil, Marie-Anne Van Sluys, Frank F White, Robert P Ryan, J Maxwell Dow, Pablo Rabinowicz, Steven L Salzberg, Jan E Leach, Ramesh Sonti, Volker Brendel, Adam J Bogdanove
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2585010?pdf=render