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Identification of Pectobacterium versatile Causing Blackleg of Potato in New York State

Journal

PLANT DISEASE
Volume 105, Issue 9, Pages 2585-2594

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AMER PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-09-20-2089-RE

Keywords

blackleg disease; Dickeya; pathogen diversity; Pectobacterium; potato; prokaryotes; whole genome sequence

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  1. National Institute for Food and Agriculture, Specialty Crops Research Initiative [2017-51181-26827]

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This study identified and characterized pathogenic SRP bacteria from potato samples collected in New York State in 2017. The findings revealed a variety of SRP species causing blackleg disease, including the first report of P. versatile causing this disease in New York State. The phylogenetic relationships between the SRP strains were determined using genomic sequence comparison.
Soft rot bacteria classified in the Pectobacteriaceae (SRP), including Pectobacterium and Dickeya spp., are responsible for soft rot and blackleg diseases of potato. Since 2014, blackleg outbreaks caused by D. dianthicola have increased in the United States and Canada. Our previous study found that the most abundant causal organisms of blackleg disease in New York State were P. parmentieri and D. dianthicola, with the latter being the only Dickeya species reported. In the present study, we identified and characterized pathogenic SRP bacteria from 19 potato samples collected in New York State during the 2017 growing season. We used genome sequence comparison to determine the pathogens' species. We found eight P. versatile, one P. atrosepticum, two P. carotovorum, two P. parmentieri, and six D. dianthicola isolates in our 2017 SRP collection. This is the first time that P. versatile has been reported to cause potato blackleg disease in New York State. We determined the phylogenetic relationships between the SRP strains by using 151 single-copy orthologous gene sequences shared among the set of bacteria in our analysis, which provided better resolution than phylogenies constructed with the dnaX gene.

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