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Swimming motility, a virulence trait of Ralstonia solanacearum, is regulated by FlhDC and the plant host environment.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Jun 2004
Tans-Kersten Julie, Brown Darby, Allen Caitilyn
Abstract excerpt
Swimming motility allows the bacterial wilt pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum to efficiently invade and colonize host plants. However, the bacteria are essentially nonmotile once inside plant xylem vessels. To determine how and when motility genes are expressed, we cloned and mutated flhDC, which encodes a major regulator of flagellar biosynthesis and bacterial motility. An flhDC mutant was nonmotile and less...
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