Genome sequence and rapid evolution of the rice pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae PXO99^A

Steven L Salzberg¹ , Daniel D Sommer¹ , Michael C Schatz¹ , Adam M Phillippy¹ , Pablo D Rabinowicz^2,3 , Seiji Tsuge⁴ , Ayako Furutani^4,5 , Hirokazu Ochiai⁵ , Arthur L Delcher¹ , David Kelley¹ , Ramana Madupu^2,6 , Daniela Puiu¹ , Diana Radune^2,6 , Martin Shumway^2,7 , Cole Trapnell¹ , Gudlur Aparna⁸ , Gopaljee Jha⁹ , Alok Pandey⁸ , Prabhu B Patil⁸ , Hiromichi Ishihara¹⁰ , Damien F Meyer¹¹ , Boris Szurek¹² , Valerie Verdier¹² , Ralf Koebnik¹² , J Maxwell Dow¹³ , Robert P Ryan¹³ , Hisae Hirata¹⁴ , Shinji Tsuyumu¹³ , Sang Won Lee¹⁵ , Pamela C Ronald¹⁵ , Ramesh V Sonti⁸ , Marie-Anne Van Sluys^9,16 , Jan E Leach⁹ , Frank F White¹⁷ and Adam J Bogdanove¹¹

¹  Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

²  The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, MD 20850, USA

³  Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA

⁴  Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Kyoto Prefectural University, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8522, Japan

⁵  Department of Genetic Resources, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Kannondai, Tsukuba 305-8602, Japan

⁶  Current address: J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA

⁷  Current address: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA

⁸  Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Hyderabad, India

⁹  Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Palampur, India

¹⁰  Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

¹¹  Department of Plant Pathology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA

¹²  Institut de la Recherche pour le Developpement, 911 Av. Agropolis, Montpellier, 34090, France

¹³  BIOMERIT Research Centre, BioSciences Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

¹⁴  Graduate School of Natural Science & Technology, Shizuoka University, 836 Ohya, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, 422-8017, Japan

¹⁵  Department of Plant Pathology, UC Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA

¹⁶  Departamento de Botânica, IB-USP, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

¹⁷  Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA