Internal fruit rot of netted melon caused by <Emphasis Type="Italic">Pantoea ananatis</Emphasis> (=<Emphasis Type="Italic">Erwinia ananas</Emphasis>) in Japan |
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| Authors: | Kazutaka Kido Rie Adachi Masaru Hasegawa Kazutaka Yano Yasufumi Hikichi Shigeharu Takeuchi Tae Atsuchi Yuichi Takikawa |
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| Institution: | (1) Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, 836 Ohya, Suruga-Ku, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan;(2) Kochi Agricultural Research Center, Hataeda, Kochi 783-0023, Japan;(3) Tottori Agricultural Experiment Station, 260 Hashimoto, Tottori 680-1142, Japan;(4) Laboratory of Plant Pathology and Biotechnology, Kochi University, Nankoku, Kochi 783-8502, Japan |
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| Abstract: | An internal fruit rot with a malodor was found in netted melons (Cucumis melo L.) in commercial greenhouses in Kochi Prefecture, Japan, in 1998, despite their healthy appearance and lack of water-soaking
or brown spots on the surface. A yellow bacterium was consistently isolated from the affected fruits. To confirm the pathogenicity
of eight representative isolates of the yellow bacterium, we stub-inoculated ovaries (immature-fruits) 5–7 days after artificial
pollination, with a pin smeared with bacteria. After the melon fruits had grown for 60 more days, an internal fruit rot resembling
the natural infection appeared, and the inoculated bacterium was reisolated. The melon isolates had properties identical with
Pantoea ananatis, such as gram-negative staining, facultative anaerobic growth, indole production, phenylalanine deaminase absence, and acid
production from melibiose, sorbitol, glycerol, and inositol. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rDNA sequences showed that
the melon bacterium positioned closely with known P. ananatis strains. The melon bacterium had indole acetic acid (IAA) biosynthesis genes (iaaM and iaaH) and a cytokinin biosynthesis gene (etz). The bacterium could be distinguished from the other ‘Pantoea’ group strains by rep-PCR genomic fingerprinting. From these results, the causal agent of internal fruit rot was identified
as a strain of P.ananatis Serrano in (Philipp J Sci 36:271–305, 1928); Mergaert et al. in (Int J Syst Bacteriol 43:162–173, 1993)].
The nucleotide sequence data reported are available in the DDBJ database under accessions AB297969, AB373739, AB373740, AB373741,
AB373742, AB373743 and AB373744. |
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| Keywords: | Internal fruit rot Pantoea ananatis IAA biosynthesis genes Cytokinin biosynthesis gene (etz gene) Repetitive sequence based-polymerase chain reaction (rep-PCR) |
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