Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae draft genomes comparison reveal strain-specific features involved in adaptation and virulence to Actinidia species

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Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Marcelletti, Simone ^a   Ferrante, Patrizia ^a   Petriccione, Milena ^b   Firrao, Giuseppe ^c   Scortichini, Marco ^a  

^a CRA   (Italy)

^b CRA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COPPER; IRON; MACROLIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TELLURIUM; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ORNITHINE; PHASEOLOTOXIN; SUCROSE;

ACTINIDIA CHINENSIS; ACTINIDIA DELICIOSA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CANKER; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CATABOLISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; ITALY; JAPAN; KIWIFRUIT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PROPHAGE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ACTINIDIA; ADAPTATION; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; QUORUM SENSING; SECRETION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOMATO; TRANSPOSON; VIRULENCE;

ACTINIDIA; ACTINIDIA CHINENSIS; ACTINIDIA DELICIOSA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. ACTINIDIAE;

ACTINIDIA; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; COPPER; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; IRON; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITRIC OXIDE; ORNITHINE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; QUORUM SENSING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUCROSE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 81755184030     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027297     Document Type: Article

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