American Society for Microbiology, Journal of Bacteriology, 5(204), 2022
DOI: 10.1128/jb.00624-21
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The Xanthomonas genus comprises a large number of phytopathogenic species that infect a wide variety of economically important plants worldwide. Bacterial adaptation to the plant and soil environment relies on their repertoire of signal transduction pathways, including alternative sigma factors of the extracytoplasmic function family (σ ECF ).