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A competitive index assay identifies several Ralstonia solanacearum type III effector mutant strains with reduced fitness in host plants.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Sept 2010
Macho Alberto P, Guidot Alice, Barberis Patrick, Beuzón Carmen R, Genin Stéphane
Abstract excerpt
Ralstonia solanacearum, the causal agent of bacterial wilt, is a soil bacterium which can naturally infect a wide range of host plants through the root system. Pathogenicity relies on a type III secretion system which delivers a large set of approximately 75 type III effectors (T3E) into plant cells. On several plants, pathogenicity assays based on quantification of wilting symptoms failed to detect a significant...
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