TY - JOUR AU - Pieretti, Isabelle AU - Royer, Monique AU - Barbe, Valérie AU - Carrere, Sébastien AU - Koebnik, Ralf AU - Couloux, Arnaud AU - Darrasse, Armelle AU - Gouzy, Jérôme AU - Jacques, Marie-Agnès AU - Lauber, Emmanuelle AU - Manceau, Charles AU - Mangenot, Sophie AU - Poussier, Stéphane AU - Segurens, Béatrice AU - Szurek, Boris AU - Verdier, Valérie AU - Arlat, Matthieu AU - Gabriel, Dean W. AU - Rott, Philippe AU - Cociancich, Stéphane PY - 2012 DA - 2012/11/21 TI - Genomic insights into strategies used by Xanthomonas albilineans with its reduced artillery to spread within sugarcane xylem vessels JO - BMC Genomics SP - 658 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - Xanthomonas albilineans causes leaf scald, a lethal disease of sugarcane. X. albilineans exhibits distinctive pathogenic mechanisms, ecology and taxonomy compared to other species of Xanthomonas. For example, this species produces a potent DNA gyrase inhibitor called albicidin that is largely responsible for inducing disease symptoms; its habitat is limited to xylem; and the species exhibits large variability. A first manuscript on the complete genome sequence of the highly pathogenic X. albilineans strain GPE PC73 focused exclusively on distinctive genomic features shared with Xylella fastidiosa—another xylem-limited Xanthomonadaceae. The present manuscript on the same genome sequence aims to describe all other pathogenicity-related genomic features of X. albilineans, and to compare, using suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH), genomic features of two strains differing in pathogenicity. SN - 1471-2164 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-13-658 DO - 10.1186/1471-2164-13-658 ID - Pieretti2012 ER -