Project description:Bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum is a serious seed/soil borne disease that causes severe yield and quality losses in many plants. In order to understand the change in genome expression of inculated plants, microarray analysis were performed. Twenty one days old roots of Arabidopsis Col-0 were inoculated with Ralstonia solanacearum race 4 @ 10^9 & 10^8 cfu/ml in different plants, distil water were mock inoculated, after five days plants were taken for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. Plants were incubated in growth chamber for disease development, temperature and humidity were maintained as per plant requirement for both treated and control plants.
Project description:Bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum is a serious seed/soil borne disease that causes severe yield and quality losses in many plants. In order to understand the change in genome expression of inculated plants, microarray analysis were performed.
Project description:Moko is one of the main diseases affecting banana and plantain in Colombia. Here, we report the genome sequence of the causal agent, the bacterium Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith) strain CIAT-078, collected in 2004 from affected plantains in central-west Colombia. The assembled genome was obtained using Oxford Nanopore Technology.
Project description:The aim of the project is to decipher the role of DNA methylation in the plant pathogenic bacteria Ralstonia solanacearum during host adaptation. As a first step, we present here the DNA methylation profile of the GMI1000 reference strain.
Project description:Bacterial wilt, caused by the soil-borne bacterium Ralstonia solanacearum, is a lethal disease of mulberry, but the molecular mechanisms of the host resistance responses to R. solanacearum remain unclear. In order to better understand molecular resistance mechanisms to R. solanacearum in mulberry, we set out to define the changes in gene expression of resistance and susceptible mulberry cultivars after inoculation with R. solanacearum. Susceptible cultivar YSD10, resistance cultivar KQ10 and YS283 were inoculation with R. solanacearum, mulberry root samples were collected at 1 dpi and non-treated control in all cultivars. Then we performed RNA-Seq analyses on all mulberry root samples using Illumina HiSeq 2000.
Project description:Arabidopsis plants were challenged with Ralstonia solanacearum isolate BCCF401 and expression profiles investigated during early and late wilt symptom development. Keywords: Disease state analysis
Project description:Bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum is a lethal, soil-borne disease of tomato. Control of the disease with chemicals and crop rotation is insufficient, because the pathogen is particularly well adapted for surviving in the soil and rhizosphere. Therefore, cultivar resistance is the most effective means for controlling bacterial wilt, but the molecular mechanisms of resistance responses remain unclear. We used microarrays to obtain the characteristics of the gene expression changes that are induced by R. solanacearum infection in resistant cultivar LS-89 and susceptible cultivar Ponderosa.
Project description:Ralstonia solancearum causes bacterial wilt disease on diverse plant hosts. R. solanacearum cells enter a host from soil or infested water through the roots, then multiply and spread in the water-transporting xylem vessels. Despite the low nutrient content of xylem sap, R. solanacearum grows extremely well inside the host, using denitrification to respire in this hypoxic environment. R. solanacearum growth in planta also depends on the successful deployment of protein effectors into host cells using a Type III Secretion System (T3SS). The T3SS is absolutely required for R. solanacearum virulence, but it is metabolically costly and can trigger host defenses. Thus, the pathogen’s success depends on optimized regulation of the T3SS. We found that a byproduct of denitrification, the toxic free-radical nitric oxide (NO), positively regulates the R. solanacearum T3SS both in vitro and in planta. Using chemical treatments and R. solanacearum mutants with altered NO levels, we show that the expression of a key T3SS regulator is induced by NO in culture. Analyzing the transcriptome of R. solanacearum responding to varying levels of NO both in culture and in planta revealed that the T3SS and effectors were broadly upregulated with increasing levels of NO. This regulation was specific to the T3SS and was not shared by other stressors. Our results suggest that R. solanacearum experiences an NO-rich environment in the plant host and may use this NO as a signal to activate T3SS during infection.