Recombination of Virulence Genes in Divergent Acidovorax avenae Strains That Infect a Common Host
Bacterial etiolation and decline (BED), caused by Acidovorax avenae, is an emerging disease of creeping bentgrass on golf courses in the United States. We performed the first comprehensive analysis of A. avenae on a nationwide collection of turfgrass- and maize-pathogenic A. avenae. Surprisingly, ou...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The American Phytopathological Society
2017-10-01
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Series: | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions |
Online Access: | https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/MPMI-06-17-0151-R |