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Emergence of a New Population of Rathayibacter toxicus: An Ecologically Complex, Geographically Isolated Bacterium.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Arif Mohammad, Busot Grethel Y, Mann Rachel, Rodoni Brendan, Liu Sanzhen, Stack James P
Abstract excerpt
Rathayibacter toxicus is a gram-positive bacterium that infects the floral parts of several Poaceae species in Australia. Bacterial ooze is often produced on the surface of infected plants and bacterial galls are produced in place of seed. R. toxicus is a regulated plant pathogen in the U.S. yet reliable detection and diagnostic tools are lacking. To better understand this geographically-isolated plant pathogen,...
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