Pseudomonas Syringae and Related Pathogens: Biology and Genetic

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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