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Genomic analysis of the Kiwifruit pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae provides insight into the origins of an emergent plant disease.
PLoS pathogens - 1 Jan 2013
McCann Honour C, Rikkerink Erik H A, Bertels Frederic, Fiers Mark, Lu Ashley, Rees-George Jonathan, Andersen Mark T, Gleave Andrew P, Haubold Bernhard, Wohlers Mark W, Guttman David S, Wang Pauline W, Straub Christina, Vanneste Joel L, Vanneste Joel, Rainey Paul B, Templeton Matthew D
Abstract excerpt
The origins of crop diseases are linked to domestication of plants. Most crops were domesticated centuries--even millennia--ago, thus limiting opportunity to understand the concomitant emergence of disease. Kiwifruit (Actinidia spp.) is an exception: domestication began in the 1930s with outbreak...
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