Harnessing population genomics to understand how bacterial pathogens emerge, adapt to crop hosts, and disseminate

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 52, Issue , 2014, Pages 19-43

  Vinatzer, Boris A ^a   Monteil, Caroline L ^a,b   Clarke, Christopher R ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Disease diagnostics; Disease emergence; Environmental reservoirs; Next generation sequencing; Phylogeography; Plant immunity; Population genomics

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CROP; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT; PLANT GENOME;

BACTERIA; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENOME, PLANT; PLANTS;

EID: 84905494631     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-102313-045907     Document Type: Article

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