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Streptomyces turgidiscabies secretes a novel virulence protein, Nec1, which facilitates infection.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Jun 2007
Joshi Madhumita, Rong Xin, Moll Simon, Kers Johan, Franco Christopher, Loria Rosemary
Abstract excerpt
Emergence of new, economically important plant-pathogenic species in the mostly saprophytic genus Streptomyces involves acquisition of a large, mobile pathogenicity island (PAI). Biosynthetic genes for a phytotoxin, thaxtomin A, are contained on this PAI. The Nec1 protein has necrogenic activity on excised potato tuber tissue, and the encoding gene is highly conserved in plant-pathogenic Streptomyces spp. The G+C...
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