injection into tomato stems; 3) collection of tomato xylem samples and bacterial quantitation; and 4) data analysis and representation. This method bypasses the natural penetration process of the pathogen, thus minimizing variation associated with stochastic events during bacterial invasion, and provides a sensitive and accurate measurement of bacterial fitness inside xylem vessels.
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Wang et al. (2021) studied this question.