Live tracking of a plant pathogen outbreak reveals rapid and successive, multidecade episome reduction
V. Roman-reyna, A. Sharma, H. Toth, Z. Konkel, N. Omiotek, S. Murthy, S. Faith, J. Slot, F. P. Hand, E. Goss, J. M. Jacobs
The paper tracks a 2022 plant pathogen outbreak, revealing a recent genome reduction event in Xanthomonas hortorum through real-time sequencing and historical isolate analysis.
bioRxiv · May 23, 2023 · PreprintMicrobiology