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Pseudomonas solanacearum Smith is one of the most destructive bacterial plant pathogens in the warm regions of the world1. Husain and Kelman2 have shown that highly virulent strains produce an extracellular slime which is implicated in the wilting action of the pathogen. Preliminary analysis of crude slime material isolated from culture filtrates of a tomato strain indicated it to be a polysaccharide associated with nitrogenous material.
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DUDMAN, W. Comparison of Slime from Tomato and Banana Strains of Pseudomonas solanacearum . Nature 184, 1969–1970 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841969a0
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