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Gloved hands streaking bacteria on a yellow agar plate in a laminar-flow cabinet, onion leaves with blight streaks on the bench (illustration)

Phytobacteriology

Gloved hands streaking bacteria on a yellow agar plate in a laminar-flow cabinet, onion leaves with blight streaks on the bench (illustration)

The Phytobacteriology programme at FABI has two main research areas, viz. taxonomy and pathogenicity. Several plant pathogenic bacteria are currently being characterized using a range of techniques, and are also being formally described. As one of our main focus areas, the pathogenicity factors of Panteoa ananatis, an opportunistic plant pathogen, are being investigated using a functional genomics approach.

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