The complete genome sequence of 'Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum', the bacterium associated with potato Zebra Chip disease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Lin, Hong ^a   Lou, Binghai ^a,b   Glynn, Jonathan M ^a   Doddapaneni, Harshavardhan ^c   Civerolo, Edwin L ^a   Chen, Chuanwu ^b   Duan, Yongping ^d   Zhou, Lijuan ^e   Vahling, Cheryl M ^d  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Guangxi Citrus Research Institute   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CONTIG; FERRITIN LIKE PROTEIN; FOLIC ACID; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE; PLANT DNA; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; NITROGEN; NUCLEOTIDE; SULFUR; VITAMIN;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL PLANT DISEASE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA ISOLATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; FOLATE BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ION TRANSPORT; LIBERIBACTER ASIATICUS; LIBERIBACTER SOLANACEARUM; METAGENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PLANT TAXONOMY; POTATO; PYROSEQUENCING; RHIZOBIACEAE; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ZEBRA CHIP DISEASE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CITRUS FRUIT; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PROPHAGE; PROTEOBACTERIA; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERICERA COCKERELLI; CANDIDATUS LIBERIBACTER; CITRUS; EQUUS SUBG. HIPPOTIGRIS; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSYLLIDAE; RHIZOBIACEAE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CITRUS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; NITROGEN; NUCLEOTIDES; PLANT DISEASES; PROPHAGES; PROTEOBACTERIA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SULFUR; VITAMINS;

EID: 79955742397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019135     Document Type: Article

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