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About the Authors:
Panagiotis F. Sarris
* E-mail: [email protected]
Current address: The Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
Affiliations Department of Plant Sciences, School of Agricultural Technology, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Heraklion, Greece, Department of Biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
Emmanouil A. Trantas
Affiliation: Department of Plant Sciences, School of Agricultural Technology, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
David A. Baltrus
Affiliation: School of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Carolee T. Bull
Affiliation: United States Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service, Salinas, California, United States of America
William Patrick Wechter
Affiliation: United States Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
Shuangchun Yan
Affiliation: Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
Filippos Ververidis
Affiliation: Department of Plant Sciences, School of Agricultural Technology, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
Nalvo F. Almeida
Affiliation: School of Computing, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Corbin D. Jones
Affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
Jeffery L. Dangl
Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
Nickolas J. Panopoulos
Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece, Professor Emeritus, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece and University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
Boris A. Vinatzer
Affiliation: Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
Dimitrios E. Goumas
Affiliation: Department of Plant Sciences, School of Agricultural Technology, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
Introduction
Pseudomonas cannabina is a Gram-negative, fluorescent, flagellated, aerobic bacterium that causes leaf and stem spot of hemp (Cannabis sativa), from which it derives its species name [1]. Although it was classified as a pathovar of Pseudomonas syringae, following extensive polyphasic taxonomic studies (including DNA-DNA hybridization, carbon source utilization and ribotyping) this pathovar was revived...