发布: 2017年01月20日第7卷第2期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2111 浏览次数: 9344
评审: Zhaohui LiuShahin S. AliAnonymous reviewer(s)
Abstract
Sugarcane (interspecific hybrids of Saccharum species) is an economically important crop that provides 70% of raw table sugar production worldwide and contributes, in some countries, to bioethanol and electricity production. Leaf scald, caused by the bacterial plant pathogen Xanthomonas albilineans, is one of the major diseases of sugarcane. Dissemination of X. albilineans is mainly ensured by contaminated harvesting tools and infected stalk cuttings. However, some strains of this pathogen are transmitted by aerial means and are able to survive as epiphytes on the sugarcane phyllosphere before entering the leaves and causing disease. Here we present a protocol to estimate the capacity of attachment of X. albilineans to sugarcane leaves. Tissue-cultured sugarcane plantlets were immersed in a bacterial suspension of X. albilineans and leaf attachment of X. albilineans was determined by two methods: leaf imprinting (semi-quantitative method) and leaf washing/homogenization (quantitative method). These methods are important tools for evaluating pathogenicity of strains/mutants of the sugarcane leaf scald pathogen.
Keywords: Attachment (附着)Background
The mechanisms that govern the interactions between X. albilineans and its host plant (the sugarcane) are not well known. Albicidin, a phytotoxin produced by albilineans, is the only molecular factor which has been demonstrated to play a role in pathogenicity of this pathogen (Birch, 2001). However, pathogenicity of X. albilineans doesn’t completely depend on albicidin. Albicidin-deficient mutants are still able to colonize efficiently the sugarcane stalk and to produce disease symptoms (Birch, 2001; Rott et al., 2011). Studies using full grown sugarcane are space and time consuming. Bioassays using miniaturized plants (tissue-cultured plants) or detached leaf bioassays can be very useful because they are less space consuming and they allow the study of plant-pathogen interactions in controlled environments. In vitro propagation of plants is widely used to rapidly propagate disease-free planting material under controlled conditions (Kumar and Reddy, 2011). Additionally, leaf imprinting has been widely used to study the ecology of bacteria associated with the phyllosphere (Hirano and Upper, 2000; Yadav et al., 2010). However, to our knowledge, these techniques have never been associated to decipher pathogenicity of bacterial plant pathogens. To identify additional pathogenicity factors of X. albilineans, especially factors involved in the early phases of infection (epiphytic phase), we developed a new miniaturized bioassay using tissue cultured sugarcane plantlets. Attachment of X. albilineans to sugarcane leaves under axenic condition was reproduced (Fleites et al., 2013; Mensi et al., 2016). This bioassay will permit the rapid testing of leaf attachment capacity of wild type and mutant strains of the pathogen causing leaf scald disease, but also of other bacteria colonizing the sugarcane leaf canopy.
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Mensi, I., Daugrois, J. and Rott, P. (2017). Bioassay of Xanthomonas albilineans Attachment on Sugarcane Leaves. Bio-protocol 7(2): e2111. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2111.
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植物科学 > 植物免疫 > 病害生物测定
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