Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii Produces an Endoglucanase That Is Required for Full Virulence in Sweet Corn

Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii, a xylem-dwelling bacterium, is the causal agent of Stewart's wilt and blight of sweet corn. The goal of this study was to characterize the only gene in the P. stewartii subsp. stewartii genome predicted to encode an endoglucanase (EGase); this gene was design...

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Main Authors: Mojtaba Mohammadi, Lindsey Burbank, M. Caroline Roper
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The American Phytopathological Society 2012-04-01
Series:Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
Online Access:https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/MPMI-09-11-0226