Bacterial pathogens, virulence mechanism and host defence in marine macroalgae

S Egan, ND Fernandes, V Kumar… - Environmental …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Macroalgae are important ecosystem engineers in temperate marine waters. The function of
macroalgae is intimately linked to the composition and structure of their epibiotic bacterial …

Diversity and copper resistance of Xanthomonas affecting citrus

F Behlau, AM Gochez, JB Jones - Tropical Plant Pathology, 2020 - Springer
Since citrus canker was first described in the early 1900's, four major types and three
species of pathogenic xanthomonads associated to citrus were identified based on the …

Phylogenomics of Xanthomonas field strains infecting pepper and tomato reveals diversity in effector repertoires and identifies determinants of host specificity

AR Schwartz, N Potnis, S Timilsina, M Wilson… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial spot disease of pepper and tomato is caused by four distinct Xanthomonas species
and is a severely limiting factor on fruit yield in these crops. The genetic diversity and the …

Comparative genomic analysis of Ralstonia solanacearum reveals candidate genes for host specificity

F Ailloud, T Lowe, G Cellier, D Roche, C Allen, P Prior - Bmc Genomics, 2015 - Springer
Background Ralstonia solanacearum is a vascular soil-borne plant pathogen with an
unusually broad host range. This economically destructive and globally distributed …

Delivery of apoplastic extracellular vesicles encapsulating green-synthesized silver nanoparticles to treat citrus canker

I Gaurav, A Thakur, G Kumar, Q Long, K Zhang… - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
The citrus canker pathogen Xanthomonas axonopodis has caused severe damage to citrus
crops worldwide, resulting in significant economic losses for the citrus industry. To address …

[HTML][HTML] Antibacterial and antiviral activities and action mechanism of flavonoid derivatives with a benzimidazole moiety

M Chen, S Su, Q Zhou, X Tang, T Liu, F Peng… - Journal of Saudi …, 2021 - Elsevier
A class of novel benzimidazole-containing flavonoid derivatives were constructed.
Antibacterial bioassay showed that most of the target compounds displayed good inhibitory …

Comparative genomic and transcriptome analyses of pathotypes of Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri provide insights into mechanisms of bacterial virulence and host …

N Jalan, D Kumar, MO Andrade, F Yu, JB Jones… - BMC genomics, 2013 - Springer
Background Citrus bacterial canker is a disease that has severe economic impact on citrus
industries worldwide and is caused by a few species and pathotypes of Xanthomonas. X …

Recombinase polymerase amplification assay for field detection of tomato bacterial spot pathogens

A Strayer-Scherer, JB Jones, ML Paret - Phytopathology, 2019 - Am Phytopath Society
Bacterial spot of tomato is caused by Xanthomonas gardneri, X. euvesicatoria, X. perforans,
and X. vesicatoria. Current diagnostic methods for the pathogens are not in-field assays …

The filamentous phage XacF1 causes loss of virulence in Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri, the causative agent of citrus canker disease

AA Ahmad, A Askora, T Kawasaki, M Fujie… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
In this study, filamentous phage XacF1, which can infect Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri
(Xac) strains, was isolated and characterized. Electron microscopy showed that XacF1 is a …

Genome sequence of Xanthomonas fuscans subsp. fuscansstrain 4834-R reveals that flagellar motility is not a general feature of xanthomonads

A Darrasse, S Carrere, V Barbe, T Boureau… - BMC genomics, 2013 - Springer
Background Xanthomonads are plant-associated bacteria responsible for diseases on
economically important crops. Xanthomonas fuscans subsp. fuscans (Xff) is one of the …