Bacterial diseases are a constant threat to crop production globally. Current management
strategies rely on an array of tactics, including improved cultural practices; application of …

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is one of the most economically important vegetables
throughout the world. It is one of the best studied cultivated dicotyledonous plants, often …

Climate change is a defining challenge of the 21st century, and this decade is a critical time
for action to mitigate the worst effects on human populations and ecosystems. Plant science …

Summary Taxonomic status Bacteria; Phylum Proteobacteria; Class Gammaproteobacteria;
Order Xanthomonadales; Family Xanthomonadaceae; Genus X anthomonas; Species …

Fruits, vegetables and other plant-derived foods contribute important ingredients for human
diets, and are thus favored by consumers worldwide. Among these horticultural crops …

Vegetables are an integral part of the human diet worldwide. Traditional breeding
approaches have been used extensively to develop new cultivars of vegetables with …

Disease symptoms Symptoms include water‐soaked areas surrounded by chlorosis turning
into necrotic spots on all aerial parts of plants. On tomato fruits, small, water‐soaked, or …

• The immune pathway responsible for perception of the Xanthomonas perforans effector
XopJ4 was identified in the plant Nicotiana benthamiana. This pathogen causes significant …

Four bacterial diseases including bacterial canker caused by Clavibacter michiganensis
subsp. michiganensis, bacterial speck caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato …

To gain insight into the genetic regulation of lipid metabolism in tomato, we conducted
metabolic trait loci (mQTL) analysis following the lipidomic profiling of fruit pericarp and leaf …