A RUDN University Biologist Described How a Harmless Bacterium Turns into a Phytopathogen (IMAGE)

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A RUDN University Biologist Described How a Harmless Bacterium Turns into a Phytopathogen

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A researcher from RUDN University suggested that Xanthomonas bacteria that are harmful to plants might have developed from a nonpathogenic related species by receiving virulence genes from other species of bacteria.

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RUDN University

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