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Pathogenomics of Xanthomonas: understanding bacterium–plant interactions

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In this Review, the insights that functional and comparative genomic studies are providing into the adaptation of this group of bacteria to exploit the extraordinary diversity of plant hosts and different host tissues are discussed.
Abstract
Xanthomonas is a large genus of Gram-negative bacteria that cause disease in hundreds of plant hosts, including many economically important crops. Pathogenic species and pathovars within species show a high degree of host plant specificity and many exhibit tissue specificity, invading either the vascular system or the mesophyll tissue of the host. In this Review, we discuss the insights that functional and comparative genomic studies are providing into the adaptation of this group of bacteria to exploit the extraordinary diversity of plant hosts and different host tissues.

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Top 10 plant pathogenic bacteria in molecular plant pathology

TL;DR: A survey of bacterial pathologists asked them to nominate the bacterial pathogens they would place in a 'Top 10' based on scientific/economic importance, and a short section is presented on each bacterium in the Top 10 list and its importance, with the intention of initiating discussion and debate amongst the plant bacteriology community.
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Progress in Botany

TL;DR: Ant–plant interactions resulting in dispersal and distribution of plants, and moreover, in respect to speciation and to evolution of high ranked taxa within the fungi, discussed mainly in relation to the genus Pleurotus and the order Boletales.
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Ecology and Genomic Insights into Plant-Pathogenic and Plant-Nonpathogenic Endophytes.

TL;DR: The differences and similarities between nonpathogenic and pathogenic endophytes in terms of host plant response, colonization strategy, and genome content are elaborate.
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Bacteriophages and Bacterial Plant Diseases.

TL;DR: The progress and challenges for phage-based disease biocontrol in food crops are examined.
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Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (cause of black rot of crucifers) in the genomic era is still a worldwide threat to brassica crops

TL;DR: Xcc can cause disease in a large number of species of Brassicaceae, including economically important vegetable Brassica crops and a number of other cruciferous crops, ornamentals and weeds, including the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
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TL;DR: This Review focuses on emerging principles of c-di-GMP signalling using selected systems in different bacteria as examples.
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Sugar transporters for intercellular exchange and nutrition of pathogens

TL;DR: Using optical glucose sensors, a new class of sugar transporters are identified, named SWEETs, and it is shown that at least six out of seventeen Arabidopsis, two out of over twenty rice and two of seven homologues in Caenorhabditis elegans, and the single copy human protein, mediate glucose transport.
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Comparison of the genomes of two Xanthomonas pathogens with differing host specificities

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TL;DR: The genus Xanthomonas is a diverse and economically important group of bacterial phytopathogens, belonging to the γ-subdivision of the Proteobacteria, and several groups of strain-specific genes are identified and proposed mechanisms that may explain the differing host specificities and pathogenic processes are proposed.
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GenDB—an open source genome annotation system for prokaryote genomes

TL;DR: A genome annotation system for prokaryote genomes, which is well tested and readily adaptable to different tasks, and can be employed as a flexible framework for the large-scale evaluation of different annotation strategies.
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Biofilm dispersal in Xanthomonas campestris is controlled by cell–cell signaling and is required for full virulence to plants

TL;DR: One role of the β-mannanase during disease is to promote transitions from an aggregated or biofilm lifestyle to a planktonic lifestyle in response to the DSF signal.
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