| detection and characterization of xanthomonas vasicola pv. vasculorum (cobb 1894) comb. nov. causing bacterial leaf streak of corn in the united states. | bacterial leaf streak of corn (zea mays) recently reached epidemic levels in three corn-growing states, and has been detected in another six states in the central united states. xanthomonas vasicola was identified as the causal agent of this disease. a multi-locus sequence alignment (mlsa) of six housekeeping genes and comparison of average nucleotide identity (ani) from draft genome sequence were used to confirm phylogenetic relationships and classification of this bacterium relative to other x ... | 2017 | 28677478 |