@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref22317,
author = {Annika Gillis and Margarita Rodriguez and Maria A. Santana},
title = {Serratia marcescens associated with bell pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) soft-rot disease under greenhouse conditions},
year = {2014},
keywords = {Bell pepper, emerging plant disease, Serratia marcescens, soft-rotting bacteria},
doi = {10.1007/s10658-013-0300-x},
url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10658-013-0300-x},
pmid = {},
journal = {European Journal of Plant Pathology},
volume = {138},
number = {1},
pages = {1--8},
abstract = {Soft-rotting bacteria affecting bell peppers crops represent an economically destructive disease of growing importance worldwide. In Venezuela since 2006, soft-rot symptoms have been occasionally observed in bell pepper fruits grown under greenhouse conditions. Affected fruits presented water-soaked lesions that progressed upon completely fruit maceration. Bacteria were isolated from water-soaked lesions in order to identify the causal agent of this disease. Of 13 bacterial isolates recovered from affected fruits, only isolate AGPim1A was able to produce a hypersensitive reaction in tobacco plants and to reproduce soft-rot symptoms in bell peppers fruits. Several methods, including classical bacteriological tests and carbon utilization profiling, alongside with sequence analysis of 16S rRNA and housekeeping genes gyrB and groES-groEL, allowed identifying the soft-rotting bacterium as Serratia marcescens. To our knowledge, this is the first report showing a S. marcescens strain associated with soft-rot disease in bell pepper fruits. }
}
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Citation title: "Serratia marcescens associated with bell pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) soft-rot disease under greenhouse conditions".
