Identification of genes in Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria induced during its interaction with tomato.

ABSTRACT: Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria is the causal agent of bacterial spot disease of tomato and pepper. The disease process is interactive and very intricate and involves a plethora of genes in the pathogen and in the host. In the pathogen, different genes are activated in response to the changing environment to enable it to survive, adapt, evade host defenses, propagate, and damage the host. To understand the disease process, it is imperative to broaden our understanding of the gene machinery that participates in it, and the most reliable way is to identify these genes in vivo. Here, we have adapted a recombinase-based in vivo expression technology (RIVET) to study the genes activated in X. campestris pv. vesicatoria during its interaction with one of its hosts, tomato. This is the fir

SUBMITTER: Tamir-Ariel D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1951904 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature