Genetic diversity of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae strains from rice fields in Malaysia.

• Main Authors: Keshavarz, Kavous, Sijam, Kamaruzaman, Mior Ahmad, Zainal Abidin, Habibuddin, H., Nejat, Naghmeh, Nazerian, Eisa
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Italian Phytopathological Society 2011
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23753/1/Genetic%20diversity%20of%20Xanthomonas%20oryzae%20pv.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23753/
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Bacterial leaf blight caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv oryzae (Xoo) is one of the most important bacterial diseases of rice, first detected in Japan in 1884. Repetitive extragenic palindromic (REP) and enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) assays were used to differentiate the phylog...