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Research in the Rajashekara and Miller laboratories is supported by funds from the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI, USDA), the Specialty Crops Research Initiative (SCRI-2010-600-25320, USDA), the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, and the Ohio State University.

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    Issmat I. Kassem & Gireesh Rajashekara

  2. Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, Madison, WI, USA

    Gary A. Splitter

  3. Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, 44691, USA

    Sally Miller

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Kassem, I.I., Splitter, G.A., Miller, S., Rajashekara, G. (2014). Let There Be Light! Bioluminescent Imaging to Study Bacterial Pathogenesis in Live Animals and Plants. In: Thouand, G., Marks, R. (eds) Bioluminescence: Fundamentals and Applications in Biotechnology - Volume 3. Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, vol 154. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/10_2014_280

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