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Using Genomes and Evolutionary Analyses to Screen for Host-Specificity and Positive Selection in the Plant Pathogen Xylella fastidiosa

Published:2022-09-22 Issue:18 Volume:88 Page:
ISSN:0099-2240
Container-title:Applied and Environmental Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:Appl Environ Microbiol

Author:

Batarseh Tiffany N.¹,Morales-Cruz Abraham¹,Ingel Brian²,Roper M. Caroline²^ORCID,Gaut Brandon S.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Irvine, Irvine, California, USA

2. Department of Plant Pathology, UC Riverside, Riverside, California, USA

Abstract

Xylella fastidiosa causes devasting diseases to several critical crops. Because X. fastidiosa colonizes and infects many plant species, it is important to understand whether the genome of X. fastidiosa has genetic determinants that underlie specialization to specific host plants.

Funder

National Science Foundation

California Department of Food and Agriculture

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/aem.01220-22

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