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Variability within a clonal population of Erwinia amylovora disclosed by phenotypic analysis.
PeerJ - 1 Jan 2022
Mendes Rafael J, Amaro Conceição, Luz João Pedro, Tavares Fernando, Santos Conceição
Abstract excerpt
Background: Fire blight is a destructive disease of pome trees, caused by Erwinia amylovora, leading to high losses of chain-of-values fruits. Major outbreaks were registered between 2010 and 2017 in Portugal, and the first molecular epidemiological characterization of those isolates disclosed a clonal population with different levels of virulence and susceptibility to antimicrobial peptides. Methods: This work...
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