Comparative genomic and transcriptome analyses of pathotypes of Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri provide insights into mechanisms of bacterial virulence and host range

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Jalan, Neha ^a   Kumar, Dibyendu ^b   Andrade, Maxuel O ^a   Yu, Fahong ^c   Jones, Jeffrey B ^c   Graham, James H ^a   White, Frank F ^d   Setubal, João C ^e,f   Wang, Nian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Rutgers University Busch Campus   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^f VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Citrus canker; HR; RNA Seq; Transcriptome; Virulence; Wellington strain; Xanthomonas citri

Indexed keywords

PECTATE LYASE; PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; AVRGF1 GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST RANGE; HRP GENE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; UPREGULATION; XANTHOMONAS CITRI; XOPAF GENE;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CITRUS PARADISI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE; XANTHOMONAS;

EID: 84882657457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-551     Document Type: Article

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