Genomic analysis of the Kiwifruit pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae provides insight into the origins of an emergent plant disease.

The origins of crop diseases are linked to domestication of plants. Most crops were domesticated centuries--even millennia--ago, thus limiting opportunity to understand the concomitant emergence of disease. Kiwifruit (Actinidia spp.) is an exception: domestication began in the 1930s with outbreaks o...

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Main Authors: Honour C McCann, Erik H A Rikkerink, Frederic Bertels, Mark Fiers, Ashley Lu, Jonathan Rees-George, Mark T Andersen, Andrew P Gleave, Bernhard Haubold, Mark W Wohlers, David S Guttman, Pauline W Wang, Christina Straub, Joel L Vanneste, Paul B Rainey, Matthew D Templeton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23935484/?tool=EBI