Comparative genomics reveals diversity among xanthomonads infecting tomato and pepper

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Potnis, Neha ^a   Krasileva, Ksenia ^b   Chow, Virginia ^a   Almeida, Nalvo F ^c   Patil, Prabhu B ^d   Ryan, Robert P ^e   Sharlach, Molly ^b   Behlau, Franklin ^a,f   Dow, J Max ^e   Momol, MT ^a   White, Frank F ^g   Preston, James F ^a   Vinatzer, Boris A ^h   Koebnik, Ralf ⁱ   Setubal, João C ^j   Norman, David J ^k   Staskawicz, Brian J ^b   Jones, Jeffrey B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO DO SUL   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^f Fundo de Defesa da Citricultura   (Brazil)

^g KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^j VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HOST RANGE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PEPPER; PHYLOGENY; QUORUM SENSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SULFATION; TOMATO; XANTHOMONAS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS GARDNERI; XANTHOMONAS VESICATORIA;

BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; CAPSICUM; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; XANTHOMONAS;

EID: 79952477092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-146     Document Type: Article

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