Pathogenomics of Xanthomonas: Understanding bacterium-plant interactions

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 344-355

  Ryan, Robert P ^a   Vorhölter, Frank Jörg ^b   Potnis, Neha ^c   Jones, Jeffrey B ^c   Van Sluys, Marie Anne ^d   Bogdanove, Adam J ^e   Dow, J Maxwell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN TONB; XANTHAN;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOMICS; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XANTHOMONADACEAE; XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS ALBILINEANS; XANTHOMONAS AXONOPODIS; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS; XANTHOMONAS CITRI; XANTHOMONAS EUVESICATORIA; XANTHOMONAS FUSCANS; XANTHOMONAS ORYZAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PLANT DISEASES; VIRULENCE FACTORS; XANTHOMONAS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; XANTHOMONAS;

EID: 79954618653     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2558     Document Type: Review

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