scholarly journals High grafting of green bell peppers (Capsicum annuum) to control bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum during summer-autumn cultivation

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (0) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Kajihara ◽  
Misako Nishida ◽  
Tomoko Kawara ◽  
Kazuhiro Nakaho
Keyword(s):  
Capsicum Annuum ◽  
Bacterial Wilt ◽  
Ralstonia Solanacearum ◽  
Bell Peppers

scholarly journals Ralstonia solanacearum Needs Motility for Invasive Virulence on Tomato

2001 ◽  
Vol 183 (12) ◽  
pp. 3597-3605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Tans-Kersten ◽  
Huayu Huang ◽  
Caitilyn Allen
Keyword(s):  
Bacterial Wilt ◽  
Ralstonia Solanacearum ◽  
Soft Agar ◽  
Cell Protein ◽  
In Planta ◽  
Tomato Plants ◽  
Bacterial Wilt Disease ◽  
Virulence Assay ◽  
Flagellar Filament

ABSTRACT Ralstonia solanacearum, a widely distributed and economically important plant pathogen, invades the roots of diverse plant hosts from the soil and aggressively colonizes the xylem vessels, causing a lethal wilting known as bacterial wilt disease. By examining bacteria from the xylem vessels of infected plants, we found thatR. solanacearum is essentially nonmotile in planta, although it can be highly motile in culture. To determine the role of pathogen motility in this disease, we cloned, characterized, and mutated two genes in the R. solanacearum flagellar biosynthetic pathway. The genes for flagellin, the subunit of the flagellar filament (fliC), and for the flagellar motor switch protein (fliM) were isolated based on their resemblance to these proteins in other bacteria. As is typical for flagellins, the predicted FliC protein had well-conserved N- and C-terminal regions, separated by a divergent central domain. The predicted R. solanacearum FliM closely resembled motor switch proteins from other proteobacteria. Chromosomal mutants lackingfliC or fliM were created by replacing the genes with marked interrupted constructs. Since fliM is embedded in the fliLMNOPQR operon, the aphAcassette was used to make a nonpolar fliM mutation. Both mutants were completely nonmotile on soft agar plates, in minimal broth, and in tomato plants. The fliC mutant lacked flagella altogether; moreover, sheared-cell protein preparations from the fliC mutant lacked a 30-kDa band corresponding to flagellin. The fliM mutant was usually aflagellate, but about 10% of cells had abnormal truncated flagella. In a biologically representative soil-soak inoculation virulence assay, both nonmotile mutants were significantly reduced in the ability to cause disease on tomato plants. However, the fliC mutant had wild-type virulence when it was inoculated directly onto cut tomato petioles, an inoculation method that did not require bacteria to enter the intact host from the soil. These results suggest that swimming motility makes its most important contribution to bacterial wilt virulence in the early stages of host plant invasion and colonization.

Effectiveness of Egyptian propolis on control of tomato bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum

2017 ◽  
Vol 124 (5) ◽  
pp. 467-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamal A. M. Abo-Elyousr ◽  
Mohamed E. A. Seleim ◽  
Rafeek M. El-Sharkawy ◽  
Hadel M. M. Khalil Bagy
Keyword(s):  
Bacterial Wilt ◽  
Ralstonia Solanacearum ◽  
Tomato Bacterial Wilt

scholarly journals Phylotype analysis of Ralstonia solanacearum strains causing potato bacterial wilt in Karnataka in India

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1277-1281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sagar Vinay ◽  
Singh Gurjar Malkhan ◽  
Arjunan Jeevalatha ◽  
R. Bakade Rahul ◽  
K. Chakrabarti S. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bacterial Wilt ◽  
Ralstonia Solanacearum
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