Acquisition and Evolution of Plant Pathogenesis–Associated Gene Clusters and Candidate Determinants of Tissue-Specificity in Xanthomonas

Hong Lu; Prabhu Patil; Marie-Anne Van Sluys; Frank F. White; Robert P. Ryan; J. Maxwell Dow; Pablo Rabinowicz; Steven L. Salzberg; Jan E. Leach; Ramesh Sonti; Volker Brendel; Adam J. Bogdanove

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003828

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Acquisition and Evolution of Plant Pathogenesis–Associated Gene Clusters and Candidate Determinants of Tissue-Specificity in Xanthomonas

Hong Lu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Lu, Prabhu Patil

Affiliation Department of Genetics Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
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Prabhu Patil ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Lu, Prabhu Patil

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Hyderabad, India
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Marie-Anne Van Sluys,

Affiliations Departamento de Botânica, IB-USP, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
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Frank F. White,

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America
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Robert P. Ryan,

Affiliation BIOMERIT Research Centre, BioSciences Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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J. Maxwell Dow,

Affiliation BIOMERIT Research Centre, BioSciences Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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Pablo Rabinowicz,

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
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Steven L. Salzberg,

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
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Jan E. Leach,

Affiliation Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
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Ramesh Sonti,

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Hyderabad, India
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Volker Brendel,

Affiliations Department of Genetics Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
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Adam J. Bogdanove

* E-mail: ajbog@iastate.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
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Acquisition and Evolution of Plant Pathogenesis–Associated Gene Clusters and Candidate Determinants of Tissue-Specificity in Xanthomonas

Hong Lu,
Prabhu Patil,
Marie-Anne Van Sluys,
Frank F. White,
Robert P. Ryan,
J. Maxwell Dow,
Pablo Rabinowicz,
Steven L. Salzberg,
Jan E. Leach,
Ramesh Sonti

Published: November 27, 2008
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003828

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