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As the great majority of phytopathogenic bacteria are extracellular parasites occupying chiefly the vessels and the intercellular spaces, and causing vascular diseases, soft-rots, spot diseases, etc., the ability to decompose the surrounding walls composed of pectin and cellulose is supposed to be an important factor controlling the destruction and/or enlargement of the tissues attacked. Although Husain and Kel-man1 reported the presence of cellulase in diseased tomato tissues infected by Pseudomonas solanacearum, our knowledge of the cellulolytic enzymes is poor in comparison with that in the field of pectolytic enzyme studies of plant pathogens.
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Husain, A., and Kelman, A., Phytopathology, 47, 111 (1957); 48, 377 (1958).
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GOTO, M., OKABE, N. Cellulolytic Activity of Phytopathogenic Bacteria. Nature 182, 1516 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821516a0
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