Genomic survey of pathogenicity determinants and VNTR markers in the cassava bacterial pathogen Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. manihotis strain CIO151

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Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Arrieta Ortiz, Mario L ^a   Rodríguez R, Luis M ^a,b   Pérez Quintero, Álvaro L ^c   Poulin, Lucie ^b   Díaz, Ana C ^a   Rojas, Nathalia Arias ^a,b   Trujillo, Cesar ^a   Benavides, Mariana Restrepo ^a   Bart, Rebecca ^d   Boch, Jens ^e   Boureau, Tristan ^f,g,h   Darrasse, Armelle ^f,g,h   David, Perrine ^f,g,h   De Bernonville, Thomas Dugé ^i,j   Fontanilla, Paula ^c   Gagnevin, Lionel ^k   Guérin, Fabien ^k   Jacques, Marie Agnès ^f,g,h   Lauber, Emmanuelle ^i,j   Lefeuvre, Pierre ^k   Medina, Cesar ^a   Medina, Edgar ^a   Montenegro, Nathaly ^a   Bodnar, Alejandra Muñoz ^c   Noël, Laurent D ^i,j   Ortiz Quiñones, Juan F ^c   Osorio, Daniela ^a   Pardo, Carolina ^a,o   Patil, Prabhu B ^l   Poussier, Stéphane ^f,g,h,i   Pruvost, Olivier ^k   Robène Soustrade, Isabelle ^k   Ryan, Robert P ^m   Tabima, Javier ^a   Urrego Morales, Oscar G ^c   Vernière, Christian ^k   Carrere, Sébastien ^i,j   Verdier, Valérie ^b,n   Szurek, Boris ^b   Restrepo, Silvia ^a   López, Camilo ^c   Koebnik, Ralf ^b   Bernal, Adriana ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^f Universite d'Angers   (France)

^g UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^h AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

ⁱ CNRS   (France)

^j LABORATOIRE DES INTERACTIONS PLANTES MICROORGANISMES LIPM   (France)

^k CIRAD   (France)

^l INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^m UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; XANTHOMONAS AXONOPODIS;

GENOME, BACTERIAL; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; VIRULENCE; XANTHOMONAS AXONOPODIS;

EID: 84896703786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079704     Document Type: Article

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