X. perforans, is an economically important bacterial disease of tomato and pepper.
Symptoms produced by all four species are nearly indistinguishable. At present, no point-of-
care diagnostics exist for BS. In this research, we examined genomes of X. euvesicatoria, X.
vesicatoria, X. gardneri, X. perforans and other species of Xanthomonas; the unique gene
recG was chosen to design primers to develop a loop-mediated isothermal amplification …