Genotypic analysis of Xylella fastidiosa isolates from different hosts using sequences homologous to the Xanthomonas rpf genes

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 327-335

  Meinhardt, Lyndel W ^a,b   Ribeiro, Milena P M A ^a   Coletta Filho, Helvécio D ^a,c   Dumenyo, C Korsi ^a,d   Tsai, Sui M ^a   Bellato, Cláudia De M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c Centro Apta Citros 'Sylvio Moreira'   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CITRUS; HIBISCUS; PROKARYOTA; PRUNUS DOMESTICA; VITIS SP.; XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS PV. CAMPESTRIS; XYLELLA; XYLELLA FASTIDIOSA;

EID: 0141674856     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1364-3703.2003.00181.x     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Albright, L.M., Huala, E. and Ausubel, F.M. (1989) Prokaryotic signal transcluction mediated by sensor and regulator protein pairs. Annu. Rev. Genet. 23, 311-336.
2. Barber, C.E., Tang, J.L., Feng, J.X., Pan, M.Q., Wilson, T.J., Slater, H., Dow, J.M., Williams, P. and Daniels, M.J. (1997) A novel regulatory system required for pathogenicity of Xanthomonas campestris is mediated by a small diffusible signal molecule. Mol. Microbiol. 24, 555-566.
3. Bellato, C.M., Garcia, A.K.M., Mestrinelli, F., Tsai, S.M., Machado, M.A. and Meinhardt, L.W. (2003) A single culture medium for the growth of Citrus sinensis and Xylella fastidiosa and its utilization for 2-DE analysis of bacterial proteins. FEMS Microbial. Lett. (submitted).
4. Beretta, M.J.G., Bathe, G.A., Cessardi, T.L., Lee, R.F. and Derrick, K.S. (1997) A survey for strains of Xylella fastidiosa in citrus affected by citrus variegated chlorosis and citrus blight in Brazil. Plant Dis. 81, 1196-1198.
5. Bhattacharyya, A., Stilwagen, S., Ivanova, N., D'Souza, M., Bernal, A., Lykidis, A., Kapatral, V., Anderson, I., Larsen, N., Los., T., Reznik, G., Selkov, E. Jr, Walunas, T.L., Feil, H., Feil, W.S., Purcell, A., Lassez, J.-L., Hawkins, T.L., Haselkorn, R., Overbeek, R., Predki, P.F. and Kyrpides, N.C. (2002) Whole-genome comparative analysis of three phytopathogenic Xylella fastidiosa strains. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 99, 12403-12408.
6. Chang, C.J., Garnier, M., Zreik, L., Rossetti, V. and Bovë, J.M. (1993) Culture and serological detection of the xylem-limited bacterium causing citrus variegated chlorosis and its identification as a strain of Xylella fastidiosa. Curr. Microbiol. 27, 137-142.
7. Chen, J., Banks, D., Jarret, R.L., Chang, C.J. and Smith, B.J. (2000) Use of 16S rDNA sequences as signature characters to identify Xylella fastidiosa. Curr. Microbiol. 40, 29-30.
8. Coletta-Filho, H.D., Takita, M.A., de Souza, A.A., Aguilar-Vildoso, C.I. and Machado, M.A. (2001) Differentiation of strains of Xylella fastidiosa by a variable number of tandem repeat analysis. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67, 4091-4095.
9. Dow, J.M. and Daniels, M.J. (2000) Xylella genomics and bacterial pathogenicity to plants. Yeast, 17, 263-271.
10. Hendson, M., Purcell, A.H., Chen, D., Smart, C., Guilhabert, M. and Kirkpatrick, B. (2001) Genetic diversity of Pierce's disease strains and other pathotypes of Xylella fastidiosa. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67, 895-903.
11. Jensen, M.A., Webster, J.A. and Straus, N. (1993) Rapid identification of bacteria on the basis of polymerase chain reaction-amplified ribosomal DNA spacer polymorphisms. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59, 945-952.
12. Konieczny, A. and Ausubel, F.M. (1993) A procedure for mapping Arabidopsis mutation using co-dominant ecotype-specific PCR-based markers. Plant J. 4, 403-410.
13. Lacava, P.T., Araujo, W.L., Maccheroni, W. and Azevedo, J.L. (2001) RAPD profile and antibiotic susceptibility of Xylella fastidiosa, causal agent of citrus variegated chlorosis. Lett. Appl. Microbiol. 33, 302-306.
14. Laranjeira, F.F., Bergamin-Filho, A.B. and Amorim, L. (1998) Dynamics and structure of citrus variegated chlorosis (CVC) foci. Fitopatol. Brasileira, 23, 36-41.
15. Lee, R.F., Beretta, J., Hartung, J.H., Hooker, M.E. and Derrick, K.S. (1993) Citrus variegated chlorosis: confirmation of a Xylella fastidiosa as the causal agent. Summa Phytopathol. 19, 123-125.
16. Lee, R.F., Derrick, K.S., Beretta, J., Chagas, C.M. and Rossetti, V. (1991) Citrus variegated chlorosis: a new destructive disease of citrus in Brazil. Citrus Ind. 72, 12-15.
17. Li, W.B., Pria, W.D. Jr, Teixeira, D.C., Miranda, V.S., Ayres, A.J., Franco, C.F., Costa, M.G., He, C.X., Costa, P.I. and Hartung, J.S. (2001) Coffee leaf scorch caused by a strain of Xylella fastidiosa from citrus. Plant Dis. 85, 501-505.
18. de Lima, J.E.O., Miranda, V.S., Hartung, J.S., Brlansky, R.H., Coutinho, A., Roberto, S.R. and Carlos, E.F. (1998) Coffee leaf scorch bacterium: axenic culture, pathogenicity, and comparison with Xylella fastidiosa of citrus. Plant Dis. 82, 94-97.
19. Lopes, A.S., Roberto, G.P. and França, S.C. (1996) Hospedeiros alternativos de Xylella fastidiosa dos citros. Fitopathol. Brasileira, 24, 250.
20. Mehta, A. and Rosato, Y.B. (2001) Phylogenetic relationships of Xylella fastidiosa strains from different hosts, based on 16S rDNA and 16S-23S intergenic spacer sequences. Int. J. Syst Evol. Microbiol. 51, 311-318.
21. Minsavage, G.V., Thompson, C.M., Hopkins, D.L., Leite, R.M.V.B.C. and Stall, R.E. (1994) Development of a polymerase chain reaction protocol for the detection of Xylella fastidiosa in plant tissue. Phytopathol. 84, 456-461.
22. Mizubuti, E.S.G., Matsuoka, K. and Parizzi, P. (1994) Association of Xylella-like bacteria with sweet orange with variegated chlorosis symptoms in the Zona da Mata region of Minas Gerais. Fitopatol. Brasileira, 19, 241-244.
23. Pooler, M.R. and Hartung, J.S. (1995) Specific PCR dection and identification of Xylella fastidiosa strains causing citrus variegated chlorosis. Curr. Microbiol. 31, 377-381.
24. Qin, X., Miranda, V.S., Machado, M.A., Lemos, E.G.M. and Hartung, J.S. (2001) An evaluation of the genetic diversity of Xylella fastidiosa isolated from diseased citrus and coffee in São Paulo, Brazil. Phytopathology 91, 599-605.
25. Roberto, S.R., Coutinho, A., Lima, J.E.O., Miranda, V.S. and Carlos, E.F. (1996) Transmissão de Xylella fastidiosa pelas cigarrinhas Dilobopterus costalimai, Acrogonia terminalis e Oncometopia facialis em citros. Fitopathol. Brasileira, 21, 517-518.
26. da Silva, F.R., Vettore, A.L., Kemper, E.L., Leite, A. and Arruda, P. (2001) Fastidian gum: the Xylella fastidiosa exopolysaccharide possibly involved in bacterial pathogenicity. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 203, 165-171.
27. Simpson, A.J.G., Reinach, F.C., Arruda, P. et al. (2000) The genome sequence of the plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa. Nature, 406, 151-157.
28. Tang, J.L., Liu, Y.N., Barber, C.E., Dow, J.M., Wootton, J.C. and Daniels, M.J. (1991) Genetic and molecular analysis of a cluster of rpf genes involved in positive regulation of synthesis of extracellular enzymes and polysaccharides in Xanthomonas campestris pathovar campestris. Mol. Gen. Genet. 226, 409-417.
29. Van Sluys, M.A., de Oliveira, M.C., Monteiro-Vitorello, C.B. et al. (2003) Comparative analysis of the complete genome sequence of Pierce's disease and citrus variegated chlorosis strains of Xylella fastidiosa. J. Bacteriol. 185, 1018-1026.
30. Wells, J.M., Raju, B.C., Hung, H.Y., Weisburg, W.G., Mandelco-Paul, L. and Brenner, D.J. (1987) Xylella fastidiosa gen. nov., sp. nov: gramnegative, xylem-limited, fastidious plant bacteria related to Xanthomonas spp. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 37, 136-143.
31. Wilson, T.J.G., Bertrand, N., Tang, J.L., Feng, J.-X., Pan, M.Q., Barber, C.E., Dow, J.M. and Daniels, M.J. (1998) The rpfA gene of Xanthomonas campestris pathovar campestris, which is involved in the regulation of pathogenicity factor production, encodes an aconitase. Mol. Microbiol. 28, 961-970.