Evaluation of sequence-based tools to gather more insight into the positioning of rhizogenic agrobacteria within the Agrobacterium tumefaciens species complex

• Pablo Roberto Vargas Ribera,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Sustainable Plant Protection, Centre de Cabrils, IRTA–Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology, Cabrils, Spain, CMPG Laboratory for Process Microbial Ecology and Bioinspirational Management (PME & BIM), Department Microbial and Molecular Systems (M2S), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0435-284X

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• Nuri Kim,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CMPG Laboratory for Process Microbial Ecology and Bioinspirational Management (PME & BIM), Department Microbial and Molecular Systems (M2S), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Leuven Plant Institute (LPI), Leuven, Belgium

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• Marc Venbrux,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CMPG Laboratory for Process Microbial Ecology and Bioinspirational Management (PME & BIM), Department Microbial and Molecular Systems (M2S), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Leuven Plant Institute (LPI), Leuven, Belgium

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• Sergio Álvarez-Pérez,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animal Health Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6587-8995

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• Hans Rediers

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hans.rediers@kuleuven.be

  Affiliations CMPG Laboratory for Process Microbial Ecology and Bioinspirational Management (PME & BIM), Department Microbial and Molecular Systems (M2S), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Leuven Plant Institute (LPI), Leuven, Belgium

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