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SUBMITTER: Lang J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5270578 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lang Julien J Vigouroux Armelle A El Sahili Abbas A Kwasiborski Anthony A Aumont-Nicaise Magali M Dessaux Yves Y Shykoff Jacqui Anne JA Moréra Solange S Faure Denis D
The ISME journal 20161101 2
We investigated the molecular and ecological mechanisms involved in niche expansion, or generalism, versus specialization in sympatric plant pathogens. Nopaline-type and octopine-type Agrobacterium tumefaciens engineer distinct niches in their plant hosts that provide different nutrients: nopaline or octopine, respectively. Previous studies revealed that nopaline-type pathogens may expand their niche to also assimilate octopine in the presence of nopaline, but consequences of this phenomenon on ...[more]