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Relationship between avirulence gene (avrA) diversity in Ralstonia solanacearum and bacterial wilt incidence.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Dec 2004
Robertson Alison E, Wechter W Patrick, Denny Timothy P, Fortnum Bruce A, Kluepfel Daniel A
Abstract excerpt
Bacterial wilt, caused by Ralstonia solanacearum, is a serious disease of tobacco in North and South Carolina. In contrast, the disease rarely occurs on tobacco in Georgia and Florida, although bacterial wilt is a common problem on tomato. We investigated whether this difference in disease incidence could be explained by qualitative characteristics of avirulence gene avrA in the R. solanacearum population in the...
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