Many plant bacteriologists, if not all, feel that their particular microbe should appear in any
list of the most important bacterial plant pathogens. However, to our knowledge, no such list …

The global human population keeps growing and natural energy supplies are depleting,
creating a threat to environmental demands, food security, and energy supply. As a result …

Phytopathogens are responsible for great losses in agriculture, once they are able to subvert
or elude the host defense mechanisms through virulence factors secretion for their …

Diverse gram-negative bacteria deliver effector proteins into the cells of their eukaryotic
hosts using the type III secretion system. Collectively, these type III effector proteins function …

Erwinia amylovora, a Gram negative bacteria of the Enterobacteriaceae family, is the causal
agent of fire blight, a devastating plant disease affecting a wide range of host species within …

Here, the intensity and ratio of superoxide anion (O 2•), hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2) and
hydroxyl anion (OH•-) formation along the in vitro shootlets of four pear (Pyrus communis L.) …

Fire blight, caused by the enterobacterium Erwinia amylovora, is a devastating disease of
rosaceous plants that has global economic importance for apple and pear production and …

The enterobacterial phytopathogen Erwinia amylovora causes fire blight, an invasive
disease that threatens a wide range of commercial and ornamental Rosaceae host plants …

Phytopathogens have evolved specialized pathogenicity determinants that enable them to
colonize their specific plant hosts and cause disease, but their intimate associations with …

Malus domestica (apple) is one of the most important fruit crops worldwide. Fire blight,
caused by Erwinia amylovora, is one of the most destructive bacterial diseases that impacts …