Natural competence in the bacterial pathogen Xylella fastidiosa varies across genotypes and is associated with adhesins

• Ranlin Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

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• María Pilar Velasco-Amo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain

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• Luis F. Arias-Giraldo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain

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• Monica A. Donegan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Neha Potnis,

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

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

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• Nate B. Hardy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

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• Rodrigo P. P. Almeida,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Blanca B. Landa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain

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• Leonardo De La Fuente

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lzd0005@auburn.edu

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0027-4840

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