Pseudomonas Syringae and Related Pathogens : Biology and Genetic

This volume mainly reports on new and recent advancements on different aspects of Pseudomonas syringae, a plant pathogenic bacterial species that include a high number of pathogens of important crops, which is an interesting model organism in plant pathology. In addition some related fluorescent Pseudomonas spp., responsible of new and emerging diseases, as well as some pathogens previously included in the above genus and now classified in the genera Ralstonia, Acidovorax are also considered. The tremendous recent advancements on: the ecology and epidemiology and, in particular, the adaptation of P. syringae to stresses and adverse environmental conditions; the function and regulation of genes involved in the production of phytotoxins and on their mechanism of action in the interaction with the host cells; the structure, function and regulation of type three secretion system (TTSS) and the transport of the effectors proteins in the host cells; the possibility to control diseases through the induction of the systemic acquired resistance (SAR); the development of molecular techniques for the highly specific and sensible identification and detection of pathogens; the determination of the causal agents of new and emerging diseases as well the classification of the different pathovars of P. syringae; are reported in 76 chapters cured by leading scientist in the respective fields. Front Matter....Pages I-XVII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Epidemiological Clues for Developing Methods of Control of Bacterial Blight of Cantaloupe Caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. aptata ....Pages 3-15 Olive Knot Disease....Pages 17-28 Exploring Pseudomonas syringae Ecology via Direct Microscopic Observations of the Leaf Surface....Pages 29-40 Stress Resistance in Pseudomonas syringae : Mechanisms and Strategies....Pages 41-49 Diversity of Epiphytic Pseudomonads on Grass and other Plant Species....Pages 51-60 Survival of Two Biocontrol Pseudomonas Strains in Tomato Fruits After Inoculation at Flowering Through Fruit Ripening....Pages 61-68 Diversity Among Pseudomonas syringae Strains from Belgian Orchards....Pages 69-77 Epiphytic Fitness of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae on Mango Trees is Increased by 62-Kb Plasmids....Pages 79-88 Evidence that Acidovorax valerianellae , Bacterial Black Spot of Corn Salad ( Valerianella locusta ) Agent, is Soil Transmitted....Pages 89-91 Pseudomonas Leek Blight: Study of Seed Transmission....Pages 93-95 Distribution and Virulence of Pseudomonas syringae pv. atrofaciens , Causal Agent of Basal Glume Rot, in Russia....Pages 97-105 Survival of Biocontrol Pseudomonas Strains and Human Pathogens in Fruit Juices....Pages 107-115 Antagonistic Activity of Pseudomonas syringae subsp. savastanoi : Preliminary Results on the Identification of a Plasmid-located Genetic Determinant....Pages 117-124 Front Matter....Pages 125-125 Methods for the Identification of Virulence Genes in Pseudomonas syringae ....Pages 127-135 Characteristics of the syr-syp Genomic Island of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae Strain B301D....Pages 137-145 Regulation and Detection of Effectors Translocated by Pseudomonas syringae ....Pages 147-156 Genetic Organisation and Proposed Function of the hrpM Locus of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae ....Pages 157-164 Is Pore Formation Activity of HrpZ Required for Defence Activation in Plant Cells?....Pages 165-173 An Antimetabolite Toxin (Mangotoxin) is Produced by Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae Isolated from Mango....Pages 175-183 Antimicrobial Lipodepsipeptides from Pseudomonas spp: a Comparison of Their Activity on Model Membranes....Pages 185-198 Front Matter....Pages 125-125 Temperature-Regulated Biosynthesis of Coronatine by Pseudomonas Syringae in vitro and in planta ....Pages 199-205 Interaction of Syringomycin E Structural Analogues with Biological and Model Membranes....Pages 207-215 Substrate Specificity of Syringomycin Synthetase Adenylation Domains....Pages 217-223 Identification of Virulence Factors from Pseudomonas syringae ....Pages 225-231 Toxic Metabolites and Lipopolysaccharides from Pseudomonas cichorii ....Pages 233-243 Chemical and Biological Characterisation of Tolaasins A-E: New Lipodepsipeptides Produced by Pseudomonas tolaasii ....Pages 245-254 Production of Tolaasin I and WLIP by Pseudomonas tolaasii and P . “ reactans ”, their Antimicrobial Activity and Possible Role in the Virulence of the Pathogens....Pages 255-262 Interaction of Tolaasin I and WLIP, Lipodepsipeptides of Pseudomonas tolaasii and P. “reactans ” , with Biological and Model Membranes....Pages 263-273 In Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola the Synthesis of Phaseolotoxin and the Concurrent Expression of the argK Gene Coding for the Phaseolotoxin-Resistant Ornithyl-Carbamoyl Transferase Occur Independent of the Global Arginine Regulator ArgR....Pages 275-282 Front Matter....Pages 283-283 The HRP Pilus of Pseudomonas syringae ....Pages 285-292 Pseudomonas syringae Pathogenesis in Arabidopsis ....Pages 293-300 Early Induced Resistance, a General, Symptomless Plant Response to Bacteria....Pages 301-309 Role of Flagella and Flagellin in Plant — Pseudomonas syringae Interactions....Pages 311-318 Preliminary Investigations on the Role of Nitric Oxide in Systemic Acquired Resistance in the Arabidopsis thaliana-Pseudomonas syringae Pathosystem....Pages 319-325 Does the Harpin of Pseudomonas syringae Interact with a Host Protein?....Pages 327-333 Lanthanum Inhibits Programmed Cell Death but not Resistance in the Tobacco — Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. phaseolicola Incompatible Interaction....Pages 335-344 Front Matter....Pages 345-345 Pseudomonas in the Underworld....Pages 347-353 Regulation of Coronatine Biosynthesis in Pseudomonas syringae ....Pages 355-362 Genomic Mining for Substrates of the Type III Secretion System of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000: New Insights into Mechanisms of Pathogenesis....Pages 363-372 Contribution of Virulence Determinants from Pseudomonas and Other Bacteria to hrp -dependent Gall Formation by Erwinia herbicola pv. gypsophilae ....Pages 373-381 Front Matter....Pages 345-345 Strain-specific Sequence Alterations in the Gene Encoding the Histidine Protein Kinase CorS Might be Responsible for Temperature-dependent Production of the Phytotoxin Coronatine by Pseudomonas syringae ....Pages 383-391 Characterisation of Effector Genes of Pseudomonads Causing Disease on Hazelnut....Pages 393-398 Generation of Microarrays for the Study of Gene Expression Patterns in Ralstonia solanacearum ....Pages 399-403 Sequence Analysis of the hrpC Operon and the hrpE Gene of Pseudomonas syringae subsp. savastanoi ....Pages 405-410 Classification and Identification of Plant Pathogenic Pseudomonas species by REP-PCR Derived Genetic Fingerprints....Pages 411-420 Front Matter....Pages 421-421 Control of Pseudomonas syringae Pathovars....Pages 423-430 Enhancing the Efficacy of Bioherbicides....Pages 431-441 Integrated Management of Bacterial Streak and Bulb Rot of Onion....Pages 443-449 Control of Olive Knot Disease with a Bacteriocin....Pages 451-457 Use of Oxos, a Complex of Hydrogen Peroxide, Acetic Acid and Silver Ion, to Control Bacterial Speck of Tomato ( Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato ) and Angular Leaf Spot of Melon ( P. s. pv. lachrymans )....Pages 459-466 Screening Wild Cherry Micropropagated Plantlets for Resistance to Bacterial Canker....Pages 467-474 Investigations on the Systemic Acquired Resistance Induced by Acibenzolar-S-Methyl in Tomato Plants Against Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato ....Pages 475-482 Integrated Management of Bacterial Decline of Hazelnut, by Using Bion as an Activator of Systemic Acquired Resistance (SAR)....Pages 483-487 Response of Some Olive Cultivars, Hybrid and Open Pollinated Seedlings to Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi ....Pages 489-494 Preliminary Results on the Antibacterial Activity of Essential Oils on Some Pathovars of Pseudomonas syringae ....Pages 495-499 Front Matter....Pages 501-501 Pathovars of Pseudomonas syringae are Structured in Genetic Populations Allowing the Selection of Specific Markers for their Detection in Plant Samples....Pages 503-512 Real — Time PCR for Ralstonia solanacearum ....Pages 513-521 Optimising PCR Detection of Ralstonia solanacearum and Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi : Two Models, Two Approaches....Pages 523-529 Use of PCR for Rapid Identification of Acidovorax avenae and A. avenae subsp. citrulli ....Pages 531-544 Limitations of the Current Methods for the Detection of Spanish Strains of Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola ....Pages 545-552 Front Matter....Pages 501-501 Detection of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato by PCR....Pages 553-558 Front Matter....Pages 559-559 Current Status of Some New and Some Old Plant Pathogenic Pseudomonads....Pages 561-572 Emergence of Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli as a Crop Threatening Disease of Watermelon and Melon....Pages 573-581 The Pseudomonads Associated with Bacterial Canker and Decline of Hazelnut ( Corylus avellana L.)....Pages 583-593 Pseudomonas “ reactans ” a New Pathogen of Cultivated Mushrooms....Pages 595-605 Identification of Pseudomonas Species from a Variety of Hosts in the Salinas Valley of California....Pages 607-615 Bacterial Canker of Hazelnut ( Corylus avellana L.) in Sardinia (Italy): Occurrence of Pseudomonas syringae Strains....Pages 617-625 Pseudomonas huttiensis Associated with Leaf Necrosis and Blighting of Tomato Seedlings in the Greenhouse....Pages 627-630 An Unusual Pseudomonad Isolated From Diseased Parsley Roots in Serbia....Pages 631-634 Occurrence of Apical Shoot Chlorosis and Whitening of Pea Caused by Strains of Pseudomonas syringae pv. pisi ....Pages 635-641 Front Matter....Pages 643-643 Taxonomy of Pseudomonas syringae Pathovars: Classification and Nomenclature....Pages 645-652 Phytopathogenic “ Pseudomonas ” Species: a Taxonomic Overview....Pages 653-665 Characterisation of an Acidovorax sp. Associated with Geranium and Petunia....Pages 667-673 Bacterial Canker of Wild Cherry Tree in France Caused by a new Pathovar of Pseudomonas syringae pv. avii (pv. nov.)....Pages 675-679 Phenotypic Characteristics of Pseudomonas savastanoi Strains from Various Hosts....Pages 681-686 Phylogenic Analysis of DNA Sequences Around the hrpL and hrpZ Regions of Pseudomonas syringae Group Bacteria....Pages 687-695 Molecular Characterisation of Spanish Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola Isolates....Pages 697-703 Back Matter....Pages 705-708 This volume mainly reports on new and recent advances of different aspects of Pseudomonas syringae, a plant pathogenic bacterial species that includes a high number of pathogens of important crops, which is an important model organism in plant pathology. In addition also some fluorescent Pseudomonas spp., responsible for new and emerging diseases, as well as pathogens previously included in the above genus and now classified in the Genera Ralstonia, Acidovorax are considered. Each chapter, cured by leading scientists in the field, reports recent knowledge on the ecology and epidemiology, molecular, physiological and biochemical aspects of pathogen-plant interactions, disease management and control, diagnosis and detection, and taxonomy of P. syringae. This book is an important tool for graduate students, as well as research plant pathologists, plant bacteriologists, plant microbe molecular biologists and cell microbe biologists