scholarly journals Low Temperature Induces Infectious Nonresuscitatable VBNC Cells in Ralstonia Pseudosolanacearum

Author(s):  
Neha Faridi ◽  
Merwyn Packia raj Samuel ◽  
Shalini Bhatt ◽  
Ankur Agrawal ◽  
Veena Pande ◽  
...  

Abstract Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum and other members of Ralstonia solanacearum species complex (RSSC) causes the disease bacterial wilt in many crops of economic importance. The organism is known to form Viable But Non Culturable cells (VBNC). VBNCs resuscitate invitro during the “resuscitation window” period and are infectious Previous studies have identified nonresuscitatable VBNCs in various bacterial genus including RSSC, however their infectivity was not elucidated and described. In this work, VBNCs of two Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum strains were generated by exposing the microcosms to psychrophilic stress, UV-C radiation and 70% isopropanol. Both resuscitatable and nonresuscitatable VBNCs were observed in psychrophilic and UV-C stressed microcosms. The nonresuscitatable VBNCs generated at psychrophilic temperature were found infective. Based on resuscitation properties, nonresuscitatable VBNCs can be considered as a different VBNC type from resuscitatable VBNCs.

Plant Disease ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 969-969
Author(s):  
T. L. Klass ◽  
M. M. Hayes ◽  
K. H. Seng ◽  
C. An ◽  
F. Rotondo ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (11) ◽  
pp. 1922-1931 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulwahab Abdurahman ◽  
Monica L. Parker ◽  
Jan Kreuze ◽  
John G. Elphinstone ◽  
Paul C. Struik ◽  
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Bacterial wilt (BW) caused by the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex (RSSC) is a serious threat to potato production in Uganda. However, little is known about the extent of the disease and the type of the pathogen strains involved. A nationwide survey was conducted to study BW prevalence and incidence in potato, and potato tuber and stem samples of potential alternative hosts were collected for pathogen isolation. DNA was extracted from pure cultures for genetic diversity studies. The pathogen was phylotyped by multiplex PCR; then, a subset of isolates was typed at sequevar level. Isolates of the same sequevar were then haplotyped using multilocus tandem repeat sequence typing (TRST) schemes. BW prevalence and incidence in potato farms were 81.4 and 1.7%, respectively. Three RSSC phylotypes were identified, with the majority of the strains belonging to Phylotype II (80%) followed by Phylotype I (18.5%) and III (1.5%). Phylotype I strains belonged to Sequevar 31, and Phylotype II strains belonged to Sequevar 1. Potato-associated Phylotype II Sequevar 1 strains were more diverse (27 TRST haplotypes) than nonpotato Phylotype I (5 TRST haplotypes). Mapping of TRST haplotypes revealed that three TRST haplotypes of Phylotype II Sequevar 1 strains play an important epidemiological role in BW of potato in Uganda being disseminated via latently infected seed. [Formula: see text] Copyright © 2019 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license .


2011 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Lebeau ◽  
M.-C. Daunay ◽  
A. Frary ◽  
A. Palloix ◽  
J.-F. Wang ◽  
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Bacterial wilt, caused by strains belonging to the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex, inflicts severe economic losses in many crops worldwide. Host resistance remains the most effective control strategy against this disease. However, wilt resistance is often overcome due to the considerable variation among pathogen strains. To help breeders circumvent this problem, we assembled a worldwide collection of 30 accessions of tomato, eggplant and pepper (Core-TEP), most of which are commonly used as sources of resistance to R. solanacearum or for mapping quantitative trait loci. The Core-TEP lines were challenged with a core collection of 12 pathogen strains (Core-Rs2) representing the phylogenetic diversity of R. solanacearum. We observed six interaction phenotypes, from highly susceptible to highly resistant. Intermediate phenotypes resulted from the plants' ability to tolerate latent infections (i.e., bacterial colonization of vascular elements with limited or no wilting). The Core-Rs2 strains partitioned into three pathotypes on pepper accessions, five on tomato, and six on eggplant. A “pathoprofile” concept was developed to characterize the strain clusters, which displayed six virulence patterns on the whole set of Core-TEP host accessions. Neither pathotypes nor pathoprofiles were phylotype specific. Pathoprofiles with high aggressiveness were mainly found in strains from phylotypes I, IIB, and III. One pathoprofile included a strain that overcame almost all resistance sources.


Agronomy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1513
Author(s):  
Herbaud Zohoungbogbo ◽  
Adonis Quenum ◽  
Judith Honfoga ◽  
Jaw-Rong Chen ◽  
Enoch Achigan-Dako ◽  
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Finding sources of resistance to bacterial wilt (BW) caused by Ralstonia solanacearum species complex is a crucial step toward the development of improved bacterial wilt-resistant tomato varieties. Here, we evaluated new sources of bacterial wilt-tolerant/resistant tomato lines and identified associated phylotype/sequevar of R. solanacearum strains in Benin. Eighteen F5 lines and five checks were evaluated in two hotspots: the experimental site of the World Vegetable Center, Cotonou Benin, and the Laboratory of Genetics, Biotechnology and Seed Science of the University of Abomey-Calavi. Experiments were laid out in a randomized complete block design with four replicates. Data were collected on bacterial wilt incidence, horticultural and fruit traits and yield components. Across the two experiments, the F5 lines showed no wilting, while the local variety ‘Tounvi’ used as susceptible check showed 57.64% wilting. The wilting was due to BW and was associated with sequevars I-14, I-18 and I-31 of phylotype I. AVTO1803, AVTO1955-6 and H7996 were the highest yielding lines with 20.29 t·ha−1, 17.66 t·ha−1 and 17.07 t/ha, respectively. The sources of resistance to BW can be recommended to national agricultural system for dissemination or used in tomato breeding programs.


Author(s):  
Ana M. Bocsanczy ◽  
Peter Bonants ◽  
Jan van der Wolf ◽  
Maria Bergsma-Vlami ◽  
David J. Norman

AbstractRalstonia pseudosolanacearum (Rps), previously known as R. solanacearum phylotypes I and III is one of the causal agents of bacterial wilt, a devastating disease that affects more than 250 plant species. Emerging Rps strains were identified infecting new hosts. P824 Rps strain was isolated from blueberry in Florida. Rps strains including PD7123 were isolated from hybrid tea roses in several countries through Europe. P781 is a representative strain of Rps commonly found on mandevilla in Florida. UW757 is a strain isolated from osteospermum plants originating in Guatemala. These strains are phylogenetically closely related and of economic importance on their respective hosts. The objective of this study is to associate the Type 3 Effectors (T3Es) repertoire of these four strains with host specificity. Candidate T3E associated with host specificity to blueberry, tea rose, osteospermum, and mandevilla were identified by sequence homology. Pathogenicity assays on 8 hosts including, blueberry, mandevilla, osteospermum and tea rose with the 4 strains showed that both P824 and PD7123 are pathogenic to blueberry and tea rose. P781 is the only strain pathogenic to mandevilla and P824 is the only strain non-pathogenic to osteospermum. Hypotheses based on correlation of T3E presence/absence and pathogenicity profiles identified 3 candidate virulence and 3 avirulence T3E for host specificity to blueberry and tea rose. Two candidate avirulence T3E were identified for mandevilla, and one candidate virulence for osteospermum. The strategy applied here can be used to reduce the number of host specificity candidate genes in closely related strains with different hosts.


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