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Recombination of Virulence Genes in Divergent Acidovorax avenae Strains That Infect a Common Host.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Oct 2017
Zeng Quan, Wang Jie, Bertels Frederic, Giordano Paul R, Chilvers Martin I, Huntley Regan B, Vargas Joseph M, Sundin George W, Jacobs Janette L, Yang Ching-Hong
Abstract excerpt
Bacterial etiolation and decline (BED), caused by Acidovorax avenae, is an emerging disease of creeping bentgrass on golf courses in the United States. We performed the first comprehensive analysis of A. avenae on a nationwide collection of turfgrass- and maize-pathogenic A. avenae. Surprisingly, our results reveal that the turfgrass-pathogenic A. avenae in North America are not only highly divergent but also...
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