Genomic acquisitions in emerging populations of Xanthomonas vasicola pv. vasculorum infecting corn in the U.S. and Argentina
A. L. Perez Quintero, M. Ortiz-Castro, G. Wu, J. M. Lang, S. Liu, T. A. Chapman, C. Chang, J. Ziegle, Z. Peng, F. F. White, M. C. Plazas, J. E. Leach, K. Broders
The paper identifies gene acquisitions in Xanthomonas vasicola pv. vasculorum genomes from the U.S. and Argentina, linking them to increased virulence through horizontal gene transfer, including a prophage from X. vasicola pv. holcicola.
bioRxiv · Mar 25, 2019Microbiology