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TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
Volume 26, Issue 1, Pages 3-12Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-011-0643-x
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Chromosomal DNA; Erwinia amylovora; Phenotypic characters; Plasmid DNA; Virulence
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Erwinia amylovora is a polyphagous bacterium causing fire blight on apple, pear and over 130 other plant species belonging mainly to the Rosaceae family. Although E. amylovora is regarded as a very homogenous species, the particular strains can differ in pathogenic ability as far as their host range is concerned (e. g. those originating from Rubus or Maloidae plants) as well as by the extent of the disease they cause. It was found that strains originating from North America are generally more genetically heterogeneous than those from Europe. Diversity of E. amylovora is also related to streptomycin resistance as a result of its application to control of fire blight. The level of genetic heterogeneity of E. amylovora is so low (comparative genome analysis revealed a similarity of over 99% for the two genomes tested) that standard DNA-based techniques fail in detection of intra-species variability. Amplified fragment length polymorphism was found to be most useful for differentiation of strains of fire blight causal agent as well as techniques ensuing release of pan-genome sequences of two E. amylovora strains: multi-locus variable number of tandem repeats analysis and clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats.
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