Table 1 Bacterial strains and plasmids used in this work

 8004

Wild type; Rif^r

[24]

 XB001

8004/pL6hrpXsacB with a Tn5 insertion in XC_4007; Rif^r; Kan^r; Tc^r

This work

 XB002

8004/pL6hrpXsacB with a Tn5 insertion in the intergenetic region

This work

between the ORFs XC_1510 and XC_1511; Rif^r; Kan^r; Tc^r

 XB003

8004/pL6hrpXsacB with a Tn5 insertion in XC_2333; Rif^r; Kan^r; Tc^r

This work

 XB004

8004/pL6hrpXsacB with a Tn5 insertion in XC_1192; Rif^r; Kan^r; Tc^r

This work

 XB005

8004/pL6hrpXsacB with a Tn5 insertion in XC_3951; Rif^r; Kan^r; Tc^r

This work

 XB006

8004/pL6hrpXsacB with a Tn5 insertion in XC_0124; Rif^r; Kan^r; Tc^r

This work

 8004/pL6hrpXsacB

8004 harboring plasmid pL6hrpXsacB; Rif^r; Tc^r

This work

 ΔrpfC

rpfC in frame deletion mutant of 8004; Rif^r

This work

 CΔrpfC

ΔrpfC harboring plasmid pLCrpfC; Rif^r; Tc^r

This work

 ΔrpfG

rpfG in frame deletion mutant of 8004; Rif^r

[17]

 ΔavrBs1

avrBs1 in frame deletion mutant of 8004; Rif^r; Gm^r

[44]

 8004/pGUShrpG

8004 harboring plasmid pGUShrpG; Rif^r; Tc^r

This work

 ΔrpfC/pGUShrpG

ΔrpfC harboring plasmid pGUShrpG; Rif^r; Tc^r

This work

 8004/pGUShrpX

8004 harboring plasmid pGUShrpX; Rif^r; Tc^r

This work

 ΔrpfC/pGUShrpX

ΔrpfC harboring plasmid pGUShrpX; Rif^r; Tc^r

This work

 JM109

RecA1, endA1, gyrA96, thi, supE44, relA1 Δ(lac-proAB)/F′ [traD36, lacI^q, lacZ ΔM15]

[29]

 pUC19

Cloning vector; Amp^r

[28]

 pLAFR6

Broad host range IncP cloning cosmid; Tc^r

[28]

 pK18mobsacB

Suicide plasmid in Xcc; Mob⁺ Tra⁻; Kan^r

[27]

 pLGUS

pLAFR6 containing a 1832-bp gusA ORF (excluding ATG), Tc^r

[31]

 pL6sacB

pLAFR6 containing a 1419-bp sacB gene, Tc^r

This work

 pKrpfCsacB

pK18mobsacB containing the two flanking fragments of rpfC; Kan^r

This work

 pUCPhrpG

pUC19 containing hrpG promoter; Amp^r

This work

 pUCPhrpX

pUC19 containing hrpX promoter; Amp^r

This work

 pGUShrpG

pLAFR6 containing hrpG promoter in frame fused with gus gene; Tc^r

This work

 pGUShrpX

pLAFR6 containing hrpX promoter in frame fused with gus gene; Tc^r

This work

 pL6hrpXsacB

pLAFR6 containing hrpX promoter in frame fused with sacB gene; Tc^r

This work

 pLCrpfC

pLAFR6 containing the sequenced whole ORF of rpfC; Tc^r

This work