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Volume 9 Supplement 1

The PAMGO Consortium: Unifying Themes In Microbe-Host Associations Identified Through The Gene Ontology

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Edited by Brett M Tyler, Alan Collmer, Candace W Collmer and Ralph A Dean

The work of the PAMGO (Plant-Associated Microbe Gene Ontology) Consortium has been supported by the National Research Initiative of the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, grant number 2005-35600-16370 and by the U.S. National Science Foundation, grant number EF-0523736.

  1. All microbes that form beneficial, neutral, or pathogenic associations with hosts face similar challenges. They must physically adhere to and/or gain entry to host tissues; they must avoid, suppress, or tolera...

    Authors: Trudy Torto-Alalibo, Candace W Collmer and Michelle Gwinn-Giglio
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9(Suppl 1):S1
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  3. A wide diversity of plant-associated symbionts, including microbes, produce proteins that can enter host cells, or are injected into host cells in order to modify the physiology of the host to promote coloniza...

    Authors: Trudy Torto-Alalibo, Candace W Collmer, Magdalen Lindeberg, David Bird, Alan Collmer and Brett M Tyler
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9(Suppl 1):S3
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  4. Genome-informed identification and characterization of Type III effector repertoires in various bacterial strains and species is revealing important insights into the critical roles that these proteins play in...

    Authors: Magdalen Lindeberg, Bryan S Biehl, Jeremy D Glasner, Nicole T Perna, Alan Collmer and Candace W Collmer
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9(Suppl 1):S4
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  5. Manipulation of programmed cell death (PCD) is central to many host microbe interactions. Both plant and animal cells use PCD as a powerful weapon against biotrophic pathogens, including viruses, which draw th...

    Authors: Marcus C Chibucos, Candace W Collmer, Trudy Torto-Alalibo, Michelle Gwinn-Giglio, Magdalen Lindeberg, Donghui Li and Brett M Tyler
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9(Suppl 1):S5
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  7. Plant diseases caused by fungi and oomycetes result in significant economic losses every year. Although phylogenetically distant, the infection processes by these organisms share many common features. These in...

    Authors: Shaowu Meng, Trudy Torto-Alalibo, Marcus C Chibucos, Brett M Tyler and Ralph A Dean
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9(Suppl 1):S7
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  8. Magnaporthe oryzae, the causal agent of blast disease of rice, is the most destructive disease of rice worldwide. The genome of this fungal pathogen has been sequenced and an automated annotation has recently bee...

    Authors: Shaowu Meng, Douglas E Brown, Daniel J Ebbole, Trudy Torto-Alalibo, Yeon Yee Oh, Jixin Deng, Thomas K Mitchell and Ralph A Dean
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9(Suppl 1):S8
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