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Unraveling the genetic basis of quantitative resistance to diseases in tomato: a meta-QTL analysis and mining of transcript profiles
Whole-genome QTL mining and meta-analysis in tomato for resistance to bacterial and fungal diseases identified 73 meta-QTL regions with significantly refined/reduced confidence intervals.
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Open AccessConstructed Rice Tracers Identify the Major Virulent Transcription Activator-Like Effectors of the Bacterial Leaf Blight Pathogen
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) injects major transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs) into plant cells to activate susceptibility (S) genes for promoting bacterial leaf blight in rice. Numerous resista...
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Open AccessThe natural pyrazolotriazine pseudoiodinine from Pseudomonas mosselii 923 inhibits plant bacterial and fungal pathogens
Natural products largely produced by Pseudomonads-like soil-dwelling microorganisms are a consistent source of antimicrobial metabolites and pesticides. Herein we report the isolation of Pseudomonas mosselii stra...
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Open AccessTALE-induced immunity against the bacterial blight pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae in rice
Transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs) are proteins produced by plant pathogenic Xanthomonas spp. TALEs exhibit a conserved structure and have the ability to directly bind to the promoter region of host t...
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Open AccessA Xanthomonas oryzae type III effector XopL causes cell death through mediating ferredoxin degradation in Nicotiana benthamiana
Plant pathogenic bacteria engage in an ongoing struggle for survival. Gram negative phytopathogenic prokaryotes deploy type III secretion system to deliver effector proteins into plant cells to manipulate the ...
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Open AccessIdentification of a virulence tal gene in the cotton pathogen, Xanthomonas citri pv. malvacearum strain Xss-V2–18
Bacterial blight of cotton (BBC), which is caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas citri pv. malvacearum (Xcm), is a destructive disease in cotton. Transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs), encoded by tal-genes...
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Open AccessRNA-Seq analysis of gene expression changes triggered by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae in a susceptible rice genotype
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) is a destructive disease in most of the rice growing regions worldwide. Xoo injects the transcriptional activator-like (TAL) effector protein into the host cell to induce the s...
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Open AccessRetraction Note: New insights into virulence mechanisms of rice pathogen Acidovorax avenae subsp. avenae strain RS-1 following exposure to ß-lactam antibiotics
Scientific Reports 6: Article number: 22241; published online: 26 February 2016; updated: 16 July 2018 The authors are retracting this Article as there are duplications, and inappropriate manipulations, of ima...
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Complete genome sequence of the sesame pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum strain SEPPX 05
Ralstonia solanacearum is a soil-borne phytopathogen associated with bacterial wilt disease of sesame. R. solanacearum is the predominant agent causing dam**-off from tropical to temperate regions. Because bact...
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Open AccessA Transcription Activator-Like Effector Tal7 of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola Activates Rice Gene Os09g29100 to Suppress Rice Immunity
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola (Xoc) and X. oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) cause bacterial leaf streak (BLS) and bacterial leaf blight (BLB) in rice, respectively. Unlike Xoo, endogenous aviru...
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Open AccessInterfering TAL effectors of Xanthomonas oryzae neutralize R-gene-mediated plant disease resistance
Plant pathogenic bacteria of the genus Xanthomonas possess transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs) that activate transcription of disease susceptibility genes in the host, inducing a state of disease. Here...
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Open AccessNew insights into virulence mechanisms of rice pathogen Acidovorax avenae subsp. avenae strain RS-1 following exposure to ß-lactam antibiotics
Recent research has shown that pathogen virulence can be altered by exposure to antibiotics, even when the growth rate is unaffected. Investigating this phenomenon provides new insights into understanding the ...
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Open AccessConstitutive expression of a novel antimicrobial protein, Hcm1, confers resistance to both Verticillium and Fusarium wilts in cotton
Fusarium and Verticillium wilts, two of the most important diseases in cotton, pose serious threats to cotton production. Here we introduced a novel antimicrobial protein Hcm1, which comprised harpin protein from...
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Open AccessMolecular studies of the Medicago truncatula MtAnn3 gene involved in root hair deformation
The full-length annexin gene, MtAnn3, of Medicago truncatula was cloned by 5′ RACE. Compared with typical annexins, which contain a head domain and four homologous repeats in the conserved core domain, the MtAnn3...
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Identification of HrpX regulon genes in Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola using a GFP visualization technique
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola is the causal agent of bacterial leaf streak in rice and injects repertoires of T3S effectors (T3SEs), which are normally regulated by a global regulator HrpX, in...
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Identification of an avirulence gene, avrxa5, from the rice pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, the causal agent of bacterial blight in rice, interacts with rice plants in a gene-for-gene manner. The specificity of the interaction is dictated by avirulence (avr) genes in the p...
