Two New Complete Genome Sequences Offer Insight into Host and Tissue Specificity of Plant Pathogenic Xanthomonas Spp

Overview

Journal J Bacteriol

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2011 Jul 26

PMID 21784931

Citations 90

Authors

Adam J Bogdanove

Ralf Koebnik

Hong Lu

Ayako Furutani

Samuel V Angiuoli

Prabhu B Patil

Marie-Anne Van Sluys

Robert P Ryan

Damien F Meyer

Sang-Wook Han

Gudlur Aparna

Misha Rajaram

Arthur L Delcher

Adam M Phillippy

Daniela Puiu

Michael C Schatz

Martin Shumway

Daniel D Sommer

Cole Trapnell

Faiza Benahmed

George Dimitrov

Ramana Madupu

Diana Radune

Steven Sullivan

Gopaljee Jha

Hiromichi Ishihara

Sang-Won Lee

Alok Pandey

Vikas Sharma

Malinee Sriariyanun

Boris Szurek

Casiana M Vera-Cruz

Karin S Dorman

Pamela C Ronald

Valerie Verdier

J Maxwell Dow

Ramesh V Sonti

Seiji Tsuge

Volker P Brendel

Pablo D Rabinowicz

Jan E Leach

Frank F White

Steven L Salzberg

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Abstract

Xanthomonas is a large genus of bacteria that collectively cause disease on more than 300 plant species. The broad host range of the genus contrasts with stringent host and tissue specificity for individual species and pathovars. Whole-genome sequences of Xanthomonas campestris pv. raphani strain 756C and X. oryzae pv. oryzicola strain BLS256, pathogens that infect the mesophyll tissue of the leading models for plant biology, Arabidopsis thaliana and rice, respectively, were determined and provided insight into the genetic determinants of host and tissue specificity. Comparisons were made with genomes of closely related strains that infect the vascular tissue of the same hosts and across a larger collection of complete Xanthomonas genomes. The results suggest a model in which complex sets of adaptations at the level of gene content account for host specificity and subtler adaptations at the level of amino acid or noncoding regulatory nucleotide sequence determine tissue specificity.

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