1. Plant Assays for Quantifying Ralstonia solanacearum Virulence.
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Khokhani D, Tran TM, Lowe-Power TM, and Allen C
- Abstract
Virulence assays are powerful tools to study microbial pathogenesis in vivo . Good assays track disease development and, coupled with targeted mutagenesis, can identify pathogen virulence factors. Disease development in plants is extremely sensitive to environmental factors such as temperature, atmospheric humidity, and soil water level, so it can be challenging to standardize conditions to achieve consistent results. Here, we present optimized and validated experimental conditions and analysis methods for nine assays that measure specific aspects of virulence in the phytopathogenic bacterium Ralstonia solanacearum , using tomato as the model host plant., Competing Interests: Competing interestsThe authors declare no conflict of interest., (Copyright © 2018 The Authors; exclusive licensee Bio-protocol LLC.)
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- 2018
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