Project description:The project aimed to study the secretome profile of the Goss's bacterial wilt and blight disease of corn caused by the phytobacterial pathogen Clavibacter nebraskensis (Cn). The experiment was carried out in Vitro using two Cn isolates (A highly aggressive isolate Cmn14-5-1 and a weakly aggressive DOAB232) from Manitoba, Canada grown in two different xylem sap media (Host xylem sap from corn (CXS), and non-host xylem sap from tomato (TXS), besides M9 medium.
Project description:The gram- positive bacterial pathogen Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis (Cmm) causes huge economic losses by infecting tomato plants worldwide. Cmm can be spread by contaminated seeds and transplants, penetrating the plant through natural openings or wounds and is transferred through the plant xylem. While in recent years significant progress has been made to elucidate plant responses to pathogenic gram-negative bacteria by gene expression studies, the molecular mechanisms that lead to disease symptoms caused by gram-positive bacteria like Cmm remain elusive. An indigenous virulent Cmm strain isolated from a farm crop of Pomodoro tomatoes in southern Greece was used for the infection of EKSTASIS F1 hybrid tomato seedlings. Here, we present the results of a deep RNA- sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis performed to characterize the dynamic expression profile of tomato genes upon Cmm infection.
