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Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii exhibits surface motility, which is a critical aspect of Stewart's wilt disease development on maize.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Oct 2008
Herrera Carmen M, Koutsoudis Maria D, Wang Xiaolei, von Bodman Susanne B
Abstract excerpt
Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii is a plant-pathogenic bacterium that causes Stewart's vascular wilt in maize. The organism is taxonomically described as aflagellated and nonmotile. We recently showed that P. stewartii colonizes the xylem of maize as sessile, cell-wall-adherent biofilms. Biofilm formation is a developmental process that generally involves some form of surface motility. For that reason, we...
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