Acquisition and evolution of plant pathogenesis-associated gene clusters and candidate determinants of tissue-specificity in xanthomonas.

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Published in PLoS One on November 27, 2008

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Hong Lu1, 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

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1: Department of Genetics Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America.

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