Developing #rice varieties resistant to a #bacterial disease outbreak in Africa.

#Xanthomonas #genomics #SWEET11a #phytopathology

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-rice-varieties-resistant-bacterial-disease.html

Interest in assembling some highly repetitive bacteria genomes? Check it out! Would be now cool to see what the newest @nanopore chemistry can do!
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What you always wanted to know about how best to assemble highly repetitive #Xanthomonas genome sequences and TALomes using short- and long-read sequencing: https://rdcu.be/c8Md5. @BioMedCentral @nanopore @illumina @NEBiolabs @martinhoelzer @mikrobenjaeger @PHIM_researc…
https://twitter.com/koebnik_ralf/status/1641466762162995204

How a sugar #cane #pathogen is gearing up a new era of #antibiotic discovery.

#Xanthomonas #albicidin #DNAgyrase

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-sugar-cane-pathogen-gearing-era.html