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Lateral organ boundaries 1 is a disease susceptibility gene for citrus bacterial canker disease.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 28 Jan 2014
Hu Yang, Zhang Junli, Jia Hongge, Sosso Davide, Li Ting, Frommer Wolf B, Yang Bing, White Frank F, Wang Nian, Jones Jeffrey B
Abstract excerpt
Citrus bacterial canker (CBC) disease occurs worldwide and incurs considerable costs both from control measures and yield losses. Bacteria that cause CBC require one of six known type III transcription activator-like (TAL) effector genes for the characteristic pustule formation at the site of infection. Here, we show that Xanthomonas citri subspecies citri strain Xcc306, with the type III TAL effector gene pthA4...
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