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Published online 31 January 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020128-8
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Genome sequence of the plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum
Researchers grapple with wilt-causing bacteria.
"It'sthe Mike Tyson of plant bacteria," says Gerry Saddler, of the Scottish Agricultural Science Agency, Edinburgh.
Saddler is referring to Ralstonia solanacearum, the cause of southern bacterial wilt possibly the most important plant disease in the world.
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