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Burkholderia gladioli strain NGJ1 deploys a prophage tail-like protein to feed on fungi

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Title Burkholderia gladioli strain NGJ1 deploys a prophage tail-like protein to feed on fungi
 
Creator Swain, D.M.
Yadav, S.
Tyagi, I.
Kumar, R.
Kumar, R.
Ghosh, S.
Das, J.
Jha, Gopaljee
 
Subject Burkholderia gladioli
fungi
 
Description Accepted date: 27 October 2019
Fungal pathogens are responsible for approximately two third of the infectious plant diseases. Due to extensive usages, pathogens have evolved
resistance against most of the commonly used fungicides. Rice sheath blight disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani remains a serious threat to
global sustainable agriculture. The pathogen has a complex biology and has been reported occurring world-wide causing necrosis and dampingoff on numerous host plant species. The pathogen is polymorphic and despite extensive efforts, till today no source of complete disease resistance
has been identified against this pathogen. We have recently discovered a novel bacterium Burkholderia gladioli strain NGJ1 which has broad
spectrum mycophagus ability. We also demonstrated that the bacteria NGJ1 deploys a prophage tail like protein (Bg_9562) to feed over fungi in a
T3SS dependant manner. Moreover we observed that Bg_9562 protein has a broad spectrum antifungal activity on Rhizoctonia solani as well as
several other phytopathogenic fungi. Furthermore, being equipped to kill and feed upon fungi, the mycophagous bacteria can serve as an
experimental tool box to facilitate discovery of novel anti-fungal molecules. This opens up a new biotechnological application of this prophage
tail like protein in controlling fungal diseases in rice as well as in other plants.
 
Date 2019-10-30T10:05:31Z
2019-10-30T10:05:31Z
2019
 
Type Other
 
Identifier (Abstract) Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 32(10): S1.10
1943-7706
http://223.31.159.10:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/1006
https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/pdf/10.1094/MPMI-32-10-S1.1
https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-32-10-S1.1
 
Language en_US
 
Publisher American Phytopathological Society