• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.220-224
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• 2009

The causal agents of bacterial blossom blight in kiwifruit were isolated from flowers displaying symptoms in Korea. The pathogens were characterized by biochemical and physiological tests, and identified on the basis of 16S rDNA and 16S-23S internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences. Pathogenicity tests demonstrated that the blossom blight of kiwifruit in Korea is caused by two pathogens, Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae and P. fluorescens. Carbon source utilization and DNA-DNA hybridization experiments confirmed P. fluorescens as one of the causal agents of blossom blight of kiwifruit. P. syringae pv. syringae and P. fluorescens can be distinguished from each other by the symptoms they produce in flowers. P. syringae pv. syringae primarily affected the stamen, while P. fluorescens caused rotting of all internal tissues of buds or flowers.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.603-615
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• 2022

Soybean (Glycine max (L) Merr.) provides plant-derived proteins, soy vegetable oils, and various beneficial metabolites to humans and livestock. The importance of soybean is highly underlined, especially when carbon-negative sustainable agriculture is noticeable. However, many diseases by pests and pathogens threaten sustainable soybean production. Therefore, understanding molecular interaction between diverse cultivated varieties and pathogens is essential to developing disease-resistant soybean plants. Here, we established a pathosystem of the Korean domestic cultivar Kwangan against Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae B728a. This bacterial strain caused apparent disease symptoms and grew well in trifoliate leaves of soybean plants. To examine the disease susceptibility of the cultivar, we analyzed transcriptional changes in soybean leaves on day 5 after P. syringae pv. syringae B728a infection. About 8,900 and 7,780 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified in this study, and significant proportions of DEGs were engaged in various primary and secondary metabolisms. On the other hand, soybean orthologs to well-known plant immune-related genes, especially in plant hormone signal transduction, mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling, and plant-pathogen interaction, were mainly reduced in transcript levels at 5 days post inoculation. These findings present the feature of the compatible interaction between cultivar Kwangan and P. syringae pv. syringae B728a, as a hemibiotroph, at the late infection phase. Collectively, we propose that P. syringae pv. syringae B728a successfully inhibits plant immune response in susceptible plants and deregulates host metabolic processes for their colonization and proliferation, whereas host plants employ diverse metabolites to protect themselves against infection with the hemibiotrophic pathogen at the late infection phase.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제28권9호
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• pp.1542-1546
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• 2018

Bacterial canker in kiwifruit is caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae (Psa). In this study, the bacteriophage PPPL-1 effective against Psa was characterized. Belonging to the Podoviridae family, PPPL-1 was effective against most Psa strains as well as most Pseudomonas syringae pathovars. PPPL-1 carries a 41,149-bp genome with 49 protein coding sequences and is homologous to the previously reported phiPSA2 bacteriophage. The lytic activity of PPPL-1 was stable up to $40^{\circ}C$, within a range of pH 3-11 and under 365 nm UV light. These results indicate that the bacteriophage PPPL-1 might be useful to control Psa in the kiwifruit field.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.246-251
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• 1994

Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci(Pa45) Tox$^{-}$ cells were infected with phage Ps90 strain isolated form the natural source, and the Ps90 lysogenized bacterial cells were then obtained. The lyxohenized cells produced tabtoxin and the phage induction occured when the cells treated with mitomycin C. The Southren hybridization alnalysis of the four EcoRI-treated plasmid fragments and the EcoRI-digested genomic DNA of Tox$^{+}$ and Tox$^{-}$ strains using phage DNA as a probe showed that only those DNA fragment of Tox$^{+}$ strain were related to the Ps90 phage DNA. Based on these results, the tabtoxin producing DNA fragments of the bacteris are presumed to have originated from the same phage DNA, and to be responsible for the pathogenecity of the bactrial strains.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.423-427
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• 2012

Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae strains, the causal agents of bacterial canker on kiwifruit, were isolated from Korea and Italy in 2011. Among 87 isolates, a total of six representative strains, three from Korea and three from Italy, were identified on the basis of biochemical and physiological tests. Identities were confirmed by PCR using P. syringae pv. actinidiae-specific primers PsaF1/R2, which amplified a 280-bp DNA fragment. The strains isolated from Korea in this study displayed BOX-PCR patterns similar to those isolated from Italy but different from those isolated previously in Korea or the pathotype P. syringae pv. actinidiae strain. The effector hopA1 and hopH1 genes, which are known to be present in strains isolated recently from France and Italy, were also present in P. syringae pv. actinidiae strains, SYS1, SYS2 and SYS4, isolated from Korea in this work. However, no amplicons of the expected size were obtained from strains previously isolated from Korea and Japan. In addition, the Korean strains isolated in this work belonged to haplotype I for the cts gene identical to those strains isolated from recent outbreaks in Italy. These results suggest that P. syringae pv. actinidiae strains isolated from Korea and examined in this work are a new type of strain similar to those found from recent outbreaks in Italy. This is the first report on the occurrence of cts haplotype I strains of P. syringae pv. actinidiae affecting kiwifruit plants in Korea.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.60-64
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• 1994

자연계로부터 식물병원균인 Pseudomonas syringae pv. Tabaci에 감염하는 bacteriophage 를 분리하였다. 이 phage의 안정성을 조사한 결과 중성 부근 pH에서 가장 안정하였고 50${\circ}C$ 이상에서는 안정성이 급격히 감소하였으며 흡착시간 별로는 10분까지는 빠른 흡착율을 보이다가 그 후부터는 서서히 감소하였다. 또한 흡착에는 금속이온을 필요로 하였으며 흡착온도는 20${\circ}C$에서 가장 높게 나타났고 20~40분에서 가장 높게 나타났다. 또한 배양온도에 따라 plaque 양상이 달랐는데 10${\circ}C$에서는 clear plaque를, 20, 30${\circ}C$에서는 turbid plaque를 형성하였다. 20${\circ}C$에서 잠복기는 약 3시간이었고 평균 방출수는 200PFU/cell이었다. 유전물질로는 ds DNA를 가지고 있었고 크기는 30kb 정도이었다.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.310-315
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• 1989

식물의 잎에 세균성 정무늬병을 야기시키는 식울 병원성균인 Pseudomonas syringae pv. tuhaci는 tabtoxin 이라는 phytotoxin 을 생성하는데 이 toxin을 미생물학적으로 간편하게 검색하는 방법플 여러가지 지시균주를 사용하여 각족 배지에서 검토하였다. Minimal A agar medium에서는 tabtoxin 검색에 Agrobactcrium tumefaces가 가장 유용한 균주였으며 minimal glucose agar m$\varepsilon$dium 에서도 역시 마찬가시의 견과를 얻였다 Complex agar medium 에서는 사용된 모든 지시균주에 대해 증식저지환이 형성되지 않아, tabtoxin이 생성되지 않음알수 있었다. 배양온도에 따른 tabtox의 생성능은 $20^{\circ}C$ 빛 $30^{\circ}C$ 에서 최적이였으며 배양시간이 경과함에 따라 tabtoxin 생성량이 증가 하였다. Glutamine을 minimal glucose agar medium에 첨가하여 tabtoxin 에 대한 지시 균주의 반응은 첨 가한 glutamine 의 양이 증가할수록 tabtoxin에 의한 생육억제가 감소함을 알 수 있었다.

• 식물병연구
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.80-84
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• 2005

2003년 충북 괴산의 양앵두나무(Prunus avium L.) 재배 포장에서 궤양병 증상이 관찰되었다. 궤양병 증상은 이른 봄에 병든 나무의 주지나 어린 가지 부위가 적갈색으로 마르면서 껍질이 쪼개지고 세균유출액이 흘러 나왔다. 잎에는 갈색 수침상 병반이 나타나고 심하게 감염된 나무의 주지 또는 어린 가지에는 낙엽이 졌다. 궤양병 증상이 심한 주지를 잘라 보면 목질부의 조직들이 파괴되어 불규칙하게 적갈색으로 변색된 전형적인 궤양병 증상이 관찰되었다. 병환부로부터 병원세균을 분리하여 형태적 특성 및 생리${\cdot}$화학적 특성을 조사한 결과 Pseudomonas syringae pv. morsprunorum으로 동정되었다. 병원세균은 양앵두나무와 매실나무의 잎에 병원성을 나타내었지만 복숭아나무, 벚나무와 참다래나무의 잎에는 병원성을 나타내지 않았다. 따라서 P.syringae pv. morsprunorum에 의해 양앵두나무에 발생하는 이 병은 궤양병으로 명명할 것을 제안한다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.227-234
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• 2011

Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci는 숙주인 담배에 감염하여 들불병(wild fire)을 일으키는 식물 병원성 세균이다. 이 세균의 pathogenicity island (PAI)는 Type III secretion system 및 병원성 유전자들을 암호화하고 있으며, 병원성 조절에 있어 핵심적인 역할을 한다. 최근 식물 병원성 세균인 Ralstonia solanacearum에서 식물 세포 접촉을 매개로 하여 hrp gene cluster를 양성조절하는 PrhA (plant regulator of hrp) receptor가 발견되었다. 본 연구에서는 P. syringae에서 식물세포에 의해 hrp 유전자가 유도되는지 확인하기 위해, prhA 유사체를 동정하고 PrhA 결실돌연변이주(BL11)를 구축하였다. BL11은 숙주 감염 실험에서 병원성이 현저히 감소하였고, 식물 세포현탁액에서 hrpA 유전자의 발현수준이 hrp 유도배지에서 보다 3배 더 높게 나타났다. 이러한 결과들을 근거로 PrhA가 식물세포접촉에 의한 조절에 중요한 역할을 한다는 것을 확인하였으며, hrpA-gfp reporter fusion을 사용하여 이를 다시 검증하였다.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.16-21
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• 2003

We have collected eight high-level streptomycin-resistant strains of Pseudomonas marginalis and P. syringae pv. actinidiae which were isolated from kiwifruit orchards in Korea and Japan, The molecular mechanisms of resistance were investigated by the PCR, susceptibility tests, and nucleotide sequence analysis. Of the eight high-level streptomycin-resistant strains, four harbored strA-strB genes, which encode streptomycin-inactivating enzymes. While the three Korean strains of R marginalis did not have plasmid and carried the resistant genes in the chromosomes, the Japanese strain of P. syringae pv. actinidiae had a plasmid containing strA-strB genes. The myomycin susceptibility test demonstrated that the high-level resistance to streptomycin of the remaining four strains is associated with mutations in the rpsL gene. Nucleotide sequence analyses revealed that they contain a single base-pair mutation in codon 43 of their rpsL gene.