Multilocus sequence typing reveals two evolutionary lineages of acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli

Phytopathology

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 913-920

  Li, Jianqiang ^a   Schuenzel, Erin L ^b   Feng, Jianjun ^a   Schaad, Norman W ^b  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; COMAMONADACEAE; DNA SEQUENCE; FRUIT; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE;

COMAMONADACEAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRUIT; GENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACIDOVORAX AVENAE SUBSP. CITRULLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS; CUCUMIS;

EID: 68649109673     PISSN: 0031949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO-99-8-0913     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Assis, S. M. P., Mariano, R. L. R., Silva-Hanlin, D. M. W., and Duarte, V. 1999. Bacterial fruit blotch caused by Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli in melon, in the state of Rio Grande Do Norte, Brazil. Fitopatol. Bras. 24:191.
2. Boyd, E. F., Nelson, K., Wang, F. S., Whittam, T. S., and Selander, R. K. 1994. Molecular genetic basis of allelic polymeorphism in malate dehydrogenase (mdh) in natural populations of Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91:1280-1284. (Pubitemid 24058994)
3. Cai, X. Q., Huang, Y. Y., Yang, J. Z., Chen, J., Cai, G. L., and Hu, F. P. 2005. Pathogen identification of bacterial fruit blotch of watermelon in Fujian. J. Fuijian Agric. For. Univ. (Nat. Sci. Ed.) 34:434-437.
4. Cheng, A. H., Hsu, Y. L., Huang, T. C., and Wang, H. L. 2000. Susceptibility of cucurbits to Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli and control of fruit blotch on melon. Plant Pathol. Bull. 9:151-156.
5. Evans T. A., and Mulrooney, R. P. 1991. First report of watermelon fruit blotch in Delaware. Plant Dis. 75:1074.
6. Feil, E. J., Li, B. C., Aanensen, D. M., Hanage, W. P., and Spratt, B. G. 2004. eBURST: inferring patterns of evolutionary descent among clusters of related bacterial genotypes from multilocus sequence typing data. J. Bacteriol. 186:1518-1530.
7. Gemir, G. 1996. A new bacterial disease of watermelon in Turkey: bacterial fruit blotch of watermelon [Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli (Schaad et al.) Willems et al.]. J. Turk. Phytopathol. 25:43-49.
8. Grundmann, H., Hori, S., Enright, M. C., Webster, C., Tami, A., Feil, E. J., and Pitt, T. 2002. Determining the genetic structure of the natural population of Staphylococcus aureus: A comparison of multilocus sequence typing with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis, and phage typing. J. Clin. Microbiol. 40:4544-4546. (Pubitemid 35434944)
9. Hall, T. A. 1999. BioEdit: a user-friendly biological sequence alignment editor and analysis program for Windows 95/98/NT. Nucleic Acids Symp. Ser. 41:95-98.
10. Hopkins, D. L. 1989. Bacterial fruit blotch of watermelon: a new disease in the eastern USA. Proc. Cucurbitaceae 89:74-75.
11. Huelsenbeck, J. P., and Ronquist, F. 2001. MRBAYES: Bayesian inference of phylogenetic trees. Bioinformatics 17:754-755. (Pubitemid 32851390)
12. Jin, Y., Zhang, J. J., Wu, Y. H., and Gao, J. 2004. Occurrence of watermelon bacterial fruit blotch and identification of its pathogens. J. Jilin Agric. Univ. 26:263-266.
13. Jones, J. B., Gitaitis, R., and Schaad, N. W. 2003. Acidovorax and Xylophilus. Pages 121-137 in: Laboratory Guide for Identification of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria. N. W. Schaad, J. B. Jones, and W. Chun, eds. American Phytopathological Society Press, St. Paul, MN.
14. Latin, R. X., and Rane, K. K. 1990. Bacterial fruit blotch of watermelon in Indiana. Plant Dis. 74:331.
15. Maiden, M. C. J., Bygraves, J. A., Feil, E., Morelli, G., Russell, J. E., Urwin, R., Zhang, Q., Zhou, J., Zurth, K., Caugant, D. A., Feavers, I. M., Achtman, M., and Spratt, B. G. 1998. Multilocus sequence typing: a portable approach to the identification of clones within populations of pathogenic microorganisms. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95:3140-3145. (Pubitemid 28135868)
16. McCombie, R. L., Finkelstein, R. A., and Woods, D. E. 2006. Multilocus sequence typing of historical Burkholderia pseudomallei isolates collected in southeast Asia from 1964 to 1967 provides insight into the epidemiology of melioidosis. J. Clin. Microbiol. 44:2951-2962.
17. Noller, A. C., McEllistrem, M. C., Stine, O. C., Morris, J. M., Jr., Booxrud, D. J., Dixon, B., and Harrison, L. H. 2003. Multilocus sequence typing reveals a lack of diversity among Escherichia coli O157:H7 isolates that are distinct by pulse-field gel electrophoresis. J. Clin. Microbiol. 41:675-679. (Pubitemid 36184181)
18. O'Brien, R. G., and Martin, H. L. 1999. Bacterial blotch of melons caused by strains of Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli. Aust. J. Exp. Agric. 39:479-485.
19. Posada, D., and Crandall, K. A. 1998. Modeltest: testing the model of DNA substitution. Bioinformatics 14:817-818. (Pubitemid 28552116)
20. Rozen, S., and Skaletsky, H. J. 2000. Primer3 on the WWW for general users and for biologist programmers. Pages 365-386 in: Bioinformatics methods and Protocols: Methods in Molecular Biology. S. Krawetz and S. Misener, eds. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.
21. Scally, M., Schuenzel, E. L., Ctouthamer, R., and Nunney, L. 2005. Multilocus sequence type system for the plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa and relative contributions of recombination and point mutation to clonal diversity. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71:8491-8499. (Pubitemid 41803980)
22. Schaad, N. W., Postnikova, E., and Randhawa, P. 2003. Emergence of Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli as a crop threatening disease of watermelon and melon. Pages 573-581 in: Pseudomonas syringae and Related Pathogens. N. S. Iacobellis, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
23. Schaad, N. W., Sowell, G., Jr., Goth, R. W., Colwell, R. R., and Webb, R. E. 1978: Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes subsp. citrulli subsp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 28:117-125.
24. Selander, R. K., Caugant, D. A., Ochman, H., Musser, J. M., Gilmour, M. N., and Whittman, T. S. 1986. Methods of multioculs enzyme electrophoresis for bacterial genetics and systematics. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 51:873-884. (Pubitemid 16078577)
25. Shirakawa, T., Kikuchi, S., Kato, T., Abiko, A., and Kaiwa, A. 2000. Occurrence of watermelon bacterial fruit blotch in Japan. Jpn. J. Plant Pathol. 66:223-231.
26. Somodi, G. C., Jones, J. B., Hopkins, D. L., Stall, R. E., Kucharek, T. A., Hodge, N. C., and Watterson, J. C. 1991. Occurrence of a bacterial watermelon fruit blotch in Florida. Plant Dis. 75:1053-1056.
27. Song, J., Xu, Y., White, S., Miller, K. W. P., and Wolinsky, M. 2005. SNPsFinder-a web-based application for genome-wide discovery of single nucleotide polymorphisms in microbial genomes. Bioinformatics 21:2083-2084. (Pubitemid 40668048)
28. Swofford, D. L. 2003. PAUP&z.ast;. Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony (&z.ast;and Other Methods). Version 4. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.
29. Thompson, J. D., Gibson T. J., Plewniak, F., Jeanmougin, F., and Higgins, D. G. 1997. The Clustal X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools. Nucleic Acids Res. 24:4876-4882. (Pubitemid 28022245)
30. Walcott, R.R., Fessehair, A., and Castro, A.C. 2004. Difference in Pathogenicity between two genetically distinct grou8ps of Acidovorax Avenae subsp. Citrulli on cucurbit hosts. J. Phytopathol. 152:277-285.
31. walcott, R.R., Langston, D.B., Sanders, F.H., and Gitaitis, R.D. 2000. Investigating intraspecific Variation of Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli using DNA fingerprinting and whole cell fatty acid analysis. Phytopathology 90:191-196
32. Wall, G. C., and Santos, V. M. 1988. A new bacterial disease on watermelon in the Mariana Islands (Abstr.). Phytopathology 78:1605.
33. Webb, R. E., and Goth, R. W. 1965. A seedborne bacterium isolated from watermelon. Plant Dis. Rep. 49:818-821.
34. Willems, A., Goor, M., Thielemans, S., Gillis, M., Kersters, K., and De Ley, J. 1992. Transfer of several phytopathogenic Pseudomonas species to Acidovorax as Acidovorax avenae subsp. avenae subsp. nov. comb. nov., Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli, Acidovorax avenae subsp. cattleyae, and Acidovorax konjaci. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 42:107-119.
35. Zhang, R., Tan, Z., Wen, Y., Zhang, H., and Jian, R. 1998. Description and identification of the causal organism of bacterial fruit blotch of watermelon. Chin. J. Trop. Crops 19:70-76.
36. Zhang, X., and Rhodes, B. B. 1990. A new devastating disease of watermelon: Bacterial fruit blotch. China Watermelon Muskmelon. 2:44-45.
37. Zhao, T., Sun, F., Wang, B., and Hui, W. 2001. Pathogen identification of Hami melon bacterial fruit blotch. Acta. Phytopathol. Sin. 31:357-364.