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Population typing of the causal agent of cassava bacterial blight in the Eastern Plains of Colombia using two types of molecular markers.
BMC microbiology - 19 Jun 2014
Trujillo César A, Arias-Rojas Nathalia, Poulin Lucie, Medina César A, Tapiero Anibal, Restrepo Silvia, Koebnik Ralf, Bernal Adriana J
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BACKGROUND: Molecular typing of pathogen populations is an important tool for the development of effective strategies for disease control. Diverse molecular markers have been used to characterize populations of Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. manihotis (Xam), the main bacterial pathogen of cassava. Recently, diversity and population dynamics of Xam in the Colombian Caribbean coast were estimated using AFLPs, where...
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