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Also we have almost a mini special issue on bacterial nutrition strategies during plant Xanthomonas infection.

Firstly, Wang et al investigate how bacteria use xanthosan to feed themselves and develop a strategy to exploit this for resistance:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A bacterial nutrition strategy for plant disease control
Xanthomonas spp. cause serious diseases in more than 400 plant species. The conserved AvrBs2 family effectors are among the most important virulence factors in xanthomonads, but how AvrBs2 promotes in...
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Engineering cassava with a modified potassium channel gene from Arabidopsis thaliana enhances K+ transport, photosynthesis and storage root yield.
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