Irey, Michael S.


Publications
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Plant hairy roots enable high throughput identification of antimicrobials against Candidatus Liberibacter spp

Citation
Irigoyen et al. (2020). Nature Communications 11 (1)
Names
Liberibacter
Abstract
AbstractA major bottleneck in identifying therapies to control citrus greening and other devastating plant diseases caused by fastidious pathogens is our inability to culture the pathogens in defined media or axenic cultures. As such, conventional approaches for antimicrobial evaluation (genetic or chemical) rely on time-consuming, low-throughput and inherently variable whole-plant assays. Here, we report that plant hairy roots support the growth of fastidious pathogens like Candidatus Liberibac