Rhizospheric microorganisms: The gateway to a sustainable plant health

SP Dlamini, AO Akanmu, OO Babalola - Frontiers in Sustainable Food …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Plant health is essential for food security, and constitutes a major predictor to safe and
sustainable food systems. Over 40% of the global crops' productions are lost to pests …

Dickeya manipulates multiple quorum sensing systems to control virulence and collective behaviors

F Liu, M Hu, Z Zhang, Y Xue, S Chen, A Hu… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Soft rot Pectobacteriaceae (SRP), typical of Pectobacterium and Dickeya, are a class of
Gram-negative bacterial pathogens that cause devastating diseases on a wide range of …

Isolation and Genome Analysis of Pectobacterium colocasium sp. nov. and Pectobacterium aroidearum, Two New Pathogens of Taro

J Zhou, M Hu, A Hu, C Li, X Ren, M Tao… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial soft rot is one of the most destructive diseases of taro (Colocasia esculenta)
worldwide. In recent years, frequent outbreaks of soft rot disease have seriously affected taro …

Five Plant Natural Products Are Potential Type III Secretion System Inhibitors to Effectively Control Soft-Rot Disease Caused by Dickeya

A Hu, M Hu, S Chen, Y Xue, X Tan, J Zhou - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Dickeya zeae, a plant soft-rot pathogen, possesses a type III secretion system (T3SS) as one
of the major virulence factors, infecting a wide variety of monocotyledonous and …

The integration host factor regulates multiple virulence pathways in bacterial pathogen Dickeya zeae MS2

S Chen, M Hu, A Hu, Y Xue, S Wang… - Molecular Plant …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dickeya zeae is an aggressive bacterial phytopathogen that infects a wide range of host
plants. It has been reported that integration host factor (IHF), a nucleoid‐associated protein …

Genomic and phenotypic biology of a novel Dickeya zeae WH1 isolated from rice in China: Insights into pathogenicity and virulence factors

XJ Tan, ZW Zhang, JJ Xiao, W Wang, F He… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Soft rot caused by Dickeya zeae is an important bacterial disease affecting rice and other
plants worldwide. In this study, Nanopore and Illumina sequencing platforms were used to …

The GacA-GacS Type Two-Component System Modulates the Pathogenicity of Dickeya oryzae EC1 Mainly by Regulating the Production of Zeamines

Y Chen, Y Li, M Zhu, M Lv, Z Liu… - Molecular Plant …, 2022 - Am Phytopath Society
The GacS-GacA type two-component system (TCS) positively regulates pathogenicity-
related phenotypes in many plant pathogens. In addition, Dickeya oryzae EC1, the causative …

Genomic and functional dissections of Dickeya zeae shed light on the role of type III secretion system and cell wall-degrading enzymes to host range and virulence

M Hu, Y Xue, C Li, M Lv, L Zhang… - Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Dickeya zeae is a worldwide destructive pathogen that causes soft rot diseases on various
hosts such as rice, maize, banana, and potato. The strain JZL7 we recently isolated from …

Comparative Pathogenomic Analysis of Two Banana Pathogenic Dickeya Strains Isolated from China and the Philippines

C Tan, C Li, M Hu, A Hu, Y Xue, X Zhou… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Dickeya is a major and typical member of soft rot Pectobacteriaceae (SRP) with a wide
range of plant hosts worldwide. Previous studies have identified D. zeae as the causal agent …

Complete Genome Resource of Bacillus velezensis J17-4, an Endophyte Isolated from Stem Tissues of Rice

Z Shi, W Hong, Q Wang - Plant Disease, 2022 - Am Phytopath Society
Dickeya zeae is the causative agent of rice root rot disease and causes severe harvest and
economic losses. In this study, the Bacillus velezensis strain J17-4 with significant …