Novel approach toward the understanding of genetic diversity based on the two types of amino acid repeats in Erwinia amylovora.

ABSTRACT: Erwinia amylovora is a notorious plant pathogenic bacterium of global concern that has devastated the apple and pear production industry worldwide. Nevertheless, the approaches available currently to understand the genetic diversity of E. amylovora remain unsatisfactory because of the lack of a trustworthy index and data covering the globally occurring E. amylovora strains; thus, their origin and distribution pattern remains ambiguous. Therefore, there is a growing need for robust approaches for obtaining this information via the comparison of the genomic structure of Amygdaloideae-infecting strains to understand their genetic diversity and distribution. Here, the whole-genome sequences of 245 E. amylovora strains available from the NCBI database were compared to identify intraspecific gen

SUBMITTER: Ham H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10587187 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature