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Pantoea ananatis: an unconventional plant pathogen by COUTINHO, TERESA A, VENTER, STEPHANUS N

“…Pantoea ananatis causes disease symptoms in a wide range of economically important agricultural crops and forest tree species worldwide. It is regarded as an…”
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Towards estimating the number of strains that make up a natural bacterial population by Viver, Tomeu, Conrad, Roth E., Rodriguez-R, Luis M., Ramírez, Ana S., Venter, Stephanus N., Rocha-Cárdenas, Jairo, Llabrés, Mercè, Amann, Rudolf, Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T., Rossello-Mora, Ramon

“…What a strain is and how many strains make up a natural bacterial population remain elusive concepts despite their apparent importance for assessing the role…”
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Pantoea bathycoeliae sp. nov and Sodalis sp. are core gut microbiome symbionts of the two-spotted stink bug by Fourie, Arista, Venter, Stephanus N, Slippers, Bernard, Fourie, Gerda

“…Stink bug species ( superfamily) have developed an interdependence with obligate bacterial gut symbionts in specialized midgut crypts (M4 sub-region). Species…”
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An ANI gap within bacterial species that advances the definitions of intra-species units by Rodriguez-R, Luis M, Conrad, Roth E, Viver, Tomeu, Feistel, Dorian J, Lindner, Blake G, Venter, Stephanus N, Orellana, Luis H, Amann, Rudolf, Rossello-Mora, Ramon, Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T

“…Bacterial strains and clonal complexes are two cornerstone concepts for microbiology that remain loosely defined, which confuses communication and research…”
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SeqCode: a nomenclatural code for prokaryotes described from sequence data by Hedlund, Brian P., Chuvochina, Maria, Hugenholtz, Philip, Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T., Murray, Alison E., Palmer, Marike, Parks, Donovan H., Probst, Alexander J., Reysenbach, Anna-Louise, Rodriguez-R, Luis M., Rossello-Mora, Ramon, Sutcliffe, Iain C., Venter, Stephanus N., Whitman, William B.

“…Most prokaryotes are not available as pure cultures and therefore ineligible for naming under the rules and recommendations of the International Code of…”
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Microbial species and intraspecies units exist and are maintained by ecological cohesiveness coupled to high homologous recombination by Conrad, Roth E., Brink, Catherine E., Viver, Tomeu, Rodriguez-R, Luis M., Aldeguer-Riquelme, Borja, Hatt, Janet K., Venter, Stephanus N., Rossello-Mora, Ramon, Amann, Rudolf, Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T.

“…Recent genomic analyses have revealed that microbial communities are predominantly composed of persistent, sequence-discrete species and intraspecies units…”
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Genome Data Provides High Support for Generic Boundaries in Burkholderia Sensu Lato by Beukes, Chrizelle W, Palmer, Marike, Manyaka, Puseletso, Chan, Wai Y, Avontuur, Juanita R, van Zyl, Elritha, Huntemann, Marcel, Clum, Alicia, Pillay, Manoj, Palaniappan, Krishnaveni, Varghese, Neha, Mikhailova, Natalia, Stamatis, Dimitrios, Reddy, T B K, Daum, Chris, Shapiro, Nicole, Markowitz, Victor, Ivanova, Natalia, Kyrpides, Nikos, Woyke, Tanja, Blom, Jochen, Whitman, William B, Venter, Stephanus N, Steenkamp, Emma T

“…Although the taxonomy of has been extensively scrutinized, significant uncertainty remains regarding the generic boundaries and composition of this large and…”
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Pantoea ananatis Utilizes a Type VI Secretion System for Pathogenesis and Bacterial Competition by Shyntum, Divine Y, Theron, Jacques, Venter, Stephanus N, Moleleki, Lucy N, Toth, Ian K, Coutinho, Teresa A

“…Type VI secretion systems (T6SSs) are a class of macromolecular machines that are recognized as an important virulence mechanism in several gram-negative…”
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The large universal Pantoea plasmid LPP-1 plays a major role in biological and ecological diversification by De Maayer, Pieter, Chan, Wai-Yin, Blom, Jochen, Venter, Stephanus N, Duffy, Brion, Smits, Theo H M, Coutinho, Teresa A

“…Pantoea spp. are frequently isolated from a wide range of ecological niches and have various biological roles, as plant epi- or endophytes, biocontrol agents,…”
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Pan-Genome-Wide Analysis of Pantoea ananatis Identified Genes Linked to Pathogenicity in Onion by Agarwal, Gaurav, Choudhary, Divya, Stice, Shaun P., Myers, Brendon K., Gitaitis, Ronald D., Venter, Stephanus N., Kvitko, Brian H., Dutta, Bhabesh

“…Pantoea ananatis, a gram negative and facultative anaerobic bacterium is a member of a Pantoea spp. complex that causes center rot of onion, which…”
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South african papilionoid legumes are nodulated by diverse burkholderia with unique nodulation and nitrogen-fixation Loci by Beukes, Chrizelle W, Venter, Stephanus N, Law, Ian J, Phalane, Francina L, Steenkamp, Emma T

“…The root-nodule bacteria of legumes endemic to the Cape Floristic Region are largely understudied, even though recent reports suggest the occurrence of…”
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Both Alpha- and Beta-Rhizobia Occupy the Root Nodules of Vachellia karroo in South Africa by Beukes, Chrizelle W, Boshoff, Francois S, Phalane, Francina L, Hassen, Ahmed I, le Roux, Marianne M, Stȩpkowski, Tomasz, Venter, Stephanus N, Steenkamp, Emma T

“…(formerly ) is a wide-spread legume species indigenous to southern Africa. Little is known regarding the identity or diversity of rhizobia that associate with…”
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Comparative genomics of the Type VI secretion systems of Pantoea and Erwinia species reveals the presence of putative effector islands that may be translocated by the VgrG and Hcp proteins by De Maayer, Pieter, Venter, Stephanus N, Kamber, Tim, Duffy, Brion, Coutinho, Teresa A, Smits, Theo H M

“…The Type VI secretion apparatus is assembled by a conserved set of proteins encoded within a distinct locus. The putative effector proteins Hcp and VgrG are…”
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Genomic delineation and description of species and within-species lineages in the genus Pantoea by Crosby, Katherine C, Rojas, Mariah, Sharma, Parul, Johnson, Marcela A, Mazloom, Reza, Kvitko, Brian H, Smits, Theo H M, Venter, Stephanus N, Coutinho, Teresa A, Heath, Lenwood S, Palmer, Marike, Vinatzer, Boris A

“…As the name of the genus ("of all sorts and sources") suggests, this genus includes bacteria with a wide range of provenances, including plants, animals,…”
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Distribution of Diverse Escherichia coli between Cattle and Pasture by NandaKafle, Gitanjali, Seale, Tarren, Flint, Toby, Nepal, Madhav, Venter, Stephanus N., Brözel, Volker S.

“…Escherichia coli is widely considered to not survive for extended periods outside the intestines of warm-blooded animals; however, recent studies demonstrated…”
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Microbial Nitrogen Metabolism in Chloraminated Drinking Water Reservoirs by Potgieter, Sarah C, Dai, Zihan, Venter, Stephanus N, Sigudu, Makhosazana, Pinto, Ameet J

“…Ammonia availability due to chloramination can promote the growth of nitrifying organisms, which can deplete chloramine residuals and result in operational…”
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Rhizosphere Diazotrophs and Other Bacteria Associated with Native and Encroaching Legumes in the Succulent Karoo Biome in South Africa by Muema, Esther K, Steenkamp, Emma T, Venter, Stephanus N

“…Total and diazotrophic bacteria were assessed in the rhizosphere soils of native and encroaching legumes growing in the Succulent Karoo Biome (SKB), South…”
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Genome-Based Characterization of Biological Processes That Differentiate Closely Related Bacteria by Palmer, Marike, Steenkamp, Emma T, Coetzee, Martin P A, Blom, Jochen, Venter, Stephanus N

“…Bacteriologists have strived toward attaining a natural classification system based on evolutionary relationships for nearly 100 years. In the early twentieth…”
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Phylogenomic, Pan-genomic, Pathogenomic and Evolutionary Genomic Insights into the Agronomically Relevant Enterobacteria Pantoea ananatis and Pantoea stewartii by De Maayer, Pieter, Aliyu, Habibu, Vikram, Surendra, Blom, Jochen, Duffy, Brion, Cowan, Don A, Smits, Theo H M, Venter, Stephanus N, Coutinho, Teresa A

“…is ubiquitously found in the environment and causes disease on a wide range of plant hosts. By contrast, its sister species, subsp. is the host-specific…”
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Transfer of Pantoea citrea, Pantoea punctata and Pantoea terrea to the genus Tatumella emend. as Tatumella citrea comb. nov., Tatumella punctata comb. nov. and Tatumella terrea comb. nov. and description of Tatumella morbirosei sp. nov by BRADY, Carrie L, VENTER, Stephanus N, CLEENWERCK, Ilse, VANDEMEULEBROECKE, Katrien, DE VOS, Paul, COUTINHO, Teresa A

“…Pantoea citrea, Pantoea punctata and Pantoea terrea were described for strains isolated from fruit and soil originating in Japan. These three 'Japanese'…”
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