ESSAI DE DIFFERENTS PRODUITS CHIMIQUES COMME DESINFECTANTS DES ECLATS (GERMES) DE POMMES DE TERRE INOCULES AVEC CORYNEBACTERIUM SEPEDONICUM

1960 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 383-387
Author(s):  
R. Paquin ◽  
J. Santerre ◽  
H. Généreux ◽  
L. J. Coulombe

Forty-seven chemicals, including antibiotics, detergents, quaternary ammonium salts, mercury compounds, disinfectants and protectants, were tested for their effectiveness as potato seed piece disinfectants after inoculating each potato set with bacterial ring rot. None of the substances tested was as effective as a solution of acidified mercuric chloride (2:1000 + 1 per cent HCl) in a 10-minute dip treatment which gave 93 to 98 per cent control. A more effective control of the disease (100 per cent) was obtained when seed stock contained only 1 per cent diseased tubers.

1956 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Katznelson ◽  
M. D. Sutton

Studies are described on the laboratory detection of bacterial ring rot of potatoes caused by Corynebacterium sepedonicum (Spieckermann and Kotthoff) Skaptason and Burkholder. A cultural–microscopic procedure, involving the preincubation of aseptically removed infected material on a suitable medium, was found in general to be more reliable than direct examination of Gram-stained smears from diseased material. This was especially noticeable with lightly infected potatoes. The use of both methods would likely decrease the possibility of incorrect diagnosis. A serological method also was found to be of value in detecting ring rot in tubers and in plant extracts. Antiserum for one typical strain of C. sepedonicum (CS850) agglutinated all strains tested, and also reacted with all infected samples examined but not with uninfected material. This organism might be used to prepare bulk antiserum for distribution to various laboratories engaged in the diagnosis of bacterial ring rot. Attempts to isolate a phage for C. sepedonicum were unsuccessful.


1974 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. H. DE BOER ◽  
R. J. COPEMAN

The aerobic endophytic bacterial population in "healthy" potato plants was found to vary from fewer than 1 × 103 to 4.2 × 107 cells/cm3 of stem tissue and from 0 to 1.6 × 104 cells/cm3 in tubers. No significant correlation was found between the bacterial population in stems and tubers of the same plant, nor was there a significant difference in the bacterial populations of virus-free plants when compared with PVX-infected plants. Strains of Micrococcus, Pseudomonas, Bacillus, Flavobacterium, Xanthomonas, Agrobacterium, and coryneforms were isolated in addition to several isolates that could not be identified. All isolates were nonpathogenic, including the coryneforms, some of which were morphologically indistinguishable from Corynebacterium sepedonicum but which were biochemically different.


1986 ◽  
Vol 32 (8) ◽  
pp. 617-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mervyn C. Clark ◽  
C. Harold Lawrence

Lysis of mid-log phase cells of the Gram-positive bacterium, Corynebacterium sepedonicum, by a combination of lysozyme treatment and incubation with alkaline sodium dodecyl sulfate at 56 °C led to the recovery of a single plasmid. The plasmid was purified in CsCl density gradients, and its molecular weight estimated to be 31 megadaltons (46 kilobases), as determined from its relative mobility in agarose gels, from its contour dimensions in electron micrographs, and from the size of the fragments generated when it was cleaved with various restriction endonucleases. Thirteen widely divergent isolates of C. sepedonicum were screened for the presence of plasmid, and of these, 11 were shown to harbour a single plasmid at a level of about 30 copies per cell. Cleavage of the plasmid with PstI gave an identical banding pattern in agarose gels for the fragments from all of the plasmid-carrying isolates. The relevance of plasmid incidence and distribution in C. sepedonicum is discussed in relation to the possibility of developing a test for the detection of bacterial ring rot by using plasmid DNA as a hybridization probe.


Author(s):  
Tomasz K. Olszewski ◽  
Anna Brol

An effective protocol for quaternization of simple 1-aminoalkylphosphonic acids under basic conditions and using Me2SO4 as convenient alkylating agent is reported. In the course of reaction phosphonic acid quaternary ammonium...


Molecules ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (13) ◽  
pp. 2424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tăbăcaru ◽  
Botezatu ◽  
Horincar ◽  
Furdui ◽  
Dinică

A family of fifteen quaternary ammonium salts (QAs), bearing the 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethane core, were obtained using for the first time two different green methods, such as microwave (MW) and ultrasounds (US) irradiation, with very good yields and in much shorter times compared to the classical method, and an assay on their antimicrobial action against Escherichia coli (E. coli) was carried out. While 12 to 24 hours were required for complete alkylation of 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethane by reactive halogenated derivatives in anhydrous solvent under reflux conditions, MW and US irradiation reduced the reaction time and the desired products were achieved in a few min. One of the aims of this study was to evaluate the antibacterial potential of the synthesized QAs against pathogenic bacteria, along with their impact on germination activity of wheat seeds (Triticum aestivum L.). The antibacterial activity of the QAs against Escherichia coli was explored by determining the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC). The MIC values varied from 0.312 to 2.5 mg/mL, highlighting the lowest values attained for the derivatives containing methoxy, chlorine and benzofurane functional groups. The viability of aerobic bacteria was determined with the Tetrazolium/Formazan Test, a method that was found to be the best alternative approach with respect to the difuzimetric method. Seeds of Triticum aestivum L. were used for the evaluation of the germination indicators, such as seed germination (SG), the relative seed germination (RSG), the relative radicle growth (RRG), and the seed germination index (GI). The toxicity studies of QAs 1, 4 and 7, at two different concentrations, showed no inhibitory effect on seed germination.


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