An Introduced Crop Plant Is Driving Diversification of the Virulent Bacterial Pathogen Erwinia tracheiphila
ABSTRACT Erwinia tracheiphila is the causal agent of bacterial wilt of cucurbits, an economically important phytopathogen affecting few cultivated Cucurbitaceae host plant species in temperate eastern North America.However, essentially nothing is known about E.tracheiphila population structure or genetic diversity.To address this shortcoming, a rep