Bacteria Genomes - XANTHOMONAS ORYZAE

Xanthomonas oryzae are Gram-negative rods, capsulated and motile with a polar flagellum and is the causal agent of bacterial blight on rice ( Oryza sativa L.). Bacterial blight disease is a major rice disease in tropical Asian countries where high-yielding rice cultivars are often highly susceptible to the disease. It is a vascular disease resulting in tannish-gray to white lesions along the leaf veins. In severely infested fields, the disease can cause yield losses as high as 50%

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Nucleic Acids Res. 33(2):577-586(2005).
Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2002 May;15(5):463-71
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