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Type III Secretion-Dependent and -Independent Phenotypes Caused by Ralstonia solanacearum in Arabidopsis Roots.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Jan 2018
Lu Haibin, Lema A Saul, Planas-Marquès Marc, Alonso-Díaz Alejandro, Valls Marc, Coll Núria S
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The causal agent of bacterial wilt, Ralstonia solanacearum, is a soilborne pathogen that invades plants through their roots, traversing many tissue layers until it reaches the xylem, where it multiplies and causes plant collapse. The effects of R. solanacearum infection are devastating, and no effective approach to fight the disease is so far available. The early steps of infection, essential for colonization, as...
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