Abstract
Xylella fastidiosa causes bacterial leaf scorch in landscape trees, including mulberry. We determined the draft genome of the mulberry strain Mul-MD in order to gain a better understanding of the molecular basis of strain divergence, host specificity, nutrient requirements, and pathogenicity, as well as to develop genome-based specific detection methods.
Highlights
Xylella fastidiosa causes bacterial leaf scorch in landscape trees, including mulberry
Xylella fastidiosa is a Gram-negative, nutritionally fastidious, insect-transmitted, and xylem-inhabiting bacterium that causes a wide range of plant diseases, including Pierce’s disease of grapevine and bacterial leaf scorch, in landscape trees such as mulberry
The contigs have an average length of 13,528 bases and were run through the annotation pipeline, which uses GeneMark to predict coding regions based on prior Xylella fastidiosa gene models and runs BLASTX against a protein set that includes UniProt and all known Xylella proteins to determine edges of genes
Summary
Xylella fastidiosa causes bacterial leaf scorch in landscape trees, including mulberry. Xylella fastidiosa is a Gram-negative, nutritionally fastidious, insect-transmitted, and xylem-inhabiting bacterium that causes a wide range of plant diseases, including Pierce’s disease of grapevine and bacterial leaf scorch, in landscape trees such as mulberry. No genomes from landscape trees had been reported.
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