Table 2.

Bacterial strains and plasmids used in this study

Strain/Plasmid	Relevant Characteristics*	Source
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae
KACC10859	Wild-type, Cpr	RDA, South Korea
CBNOXOO5	rpfF::EZ-Tn5, Kmr	Jeong et al., 2008; He et al., 2010
CBNUXOO6	rpfG::EZ-Tn5, Kmr	Jeong et al., 2008; He et al., 2010
CBNUXOO5C	CBNUXOO5/pVSP61-mcs-sp::rpfF, Kmr, Spr	This study
CBNUXOO6C	CBNUXOO6/pVSP61-mcs-sp::rpfG, Kmr, Spr	This study
pVSP61	Kmr	Loper and Lindow, 1994
pVSP61-mcs-sp	pVSP61::MCS of Puc19::Spr, Spr	This study
pVSP61-mcs-sp::rpfF	pVSP61-mcs-sp::rpfF, Spr	This study
pVSP61-mcs-sp::rpfG	pVSP61-mcs-sp::rpfF, Spr	This study

^*Cp^r: cephalexin resistance, Km^r: kanamycin resistance, Sp^r: spectinomycin resistance.