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Exopolysaccharides favor the survival of Erwinia amylovora under copper stress through different strategies.
Research in microbiology - 1 Sept 2010
Ordax Mónica, Marco-Noales Ester, López María M, Biosca Elena G
Abstract excerpt
Erwinia amylovora causes fire blight, a destructive disease of rosaceous plants very difficult to control. We demonstrated that copper, employed to control plant diseases, induces the "viable-but-nonculturable" (VBNC) state in E. amylovora. Moreover, it was previously reported that copper increases production of its main exopolysaccharide (EPS), amylovoran. In this work, the copper-complexing ability of...
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