Swimming Motility, a Virulence Trait of Ralstonia solanacearum, Is Regulated by FlhDC and the Plant Host Environment

Swimming motility allows the bacterial wilt pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum to efficiently invade and colonize host plants. However, the bacteria are essentially nonmotile once inside plant xylem vessels. To determine how and when motility genes are expressed, we cloned and mutated flhDC, which enco...

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Main Authors: Julie Tans-Kersten, Darby Brown, Caitilyn Allen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The American Phytopathological Society 2004-06-01
Series:Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
Online Access:https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/MPMI.2004.17.6.686