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Genomic Analysis of Clavibacter michiganensis Reveals Insight Into Virulence Strategies and Genetic Diversity of a Gram-Positive Bacterial Pathogen.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Oct 2017
Thapa Shree P, Pattathil Sivakumar, Hahn Michael G, Jacques Marie-Agnès, Gilbertson Robert L, Coaker Gitta
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Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis is a gram-positive bacterial pathogen that proliferates in the xylem vessels of tomato, causing bacterial canker disease. In this study, we sequenced and assembled genomes of 11 C. michiganensis subsp. michiganensis strains isolated from infected tomato fields in California as well as five Clavibacter strains that colonize tomato endophytically but are not pathogenic...
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